1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 4ffee0de4SDavid Woodhouse default ARCH != "i386" 58f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 1282491451SRussell King select CLKSRC_I8253 13af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 163120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 173120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 184692d77fSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 19bc08b449SLinus Torvalds select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF 201032c0baSSam Ravnborg 211032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 24446f24d1SStephen Boyd select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2577fbbc81SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 265e2c18c0SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO 27e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 28a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 29cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 30be5e610cSPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if X86_64 31cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 32ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 3342d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 348761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 35cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 3628b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 373f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 3872d7c3b3SYinghai Lu select HAVE_MEMBLOCK 390608f70cSTejun Heo select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 40c378ddd5STejun Heo select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 411f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 42da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 437c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 440a2b9a6eSMarek Szyprowski select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB 459edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 46c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 47e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 48e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 49d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 50cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 51677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 5206aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 53606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 5448d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 5571e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5660a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5766700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 587ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 59e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 6049793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 6199bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 62323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 6358340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 648d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 65f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 662118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 7030314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 7113510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 72f9b493acSKyungsik Lee select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 730067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 740102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 7599e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 76c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 77c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 78c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 79b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 8099e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 81eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 82eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 832565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 840a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 857c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 86e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8746eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 887463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 89141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 90c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 913bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 923bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 93517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 94d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 95c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 96e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9715626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 980a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 99df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1004673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 101e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 1027eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 103c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 104c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1058b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 106bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1070f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 109bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 110bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA if X86_64 111bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 112bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 113bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1144ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1155723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11691d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 117fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1184febd95aSStephen Rothwell select VIRT_TO_BUS 119786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 120786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1211d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 12283a57a4dSDavid Woodhouse select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 12315ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1245b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 1255b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1263195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 127d1a1dc0bSDave Hansen select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 128a2cd11f7SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 12919952a92SKees Cook select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1307d8330a5SBalbir Singh 131ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1323120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1333120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 134ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 13551b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 13651b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 13751b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 13851b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 13951b26adaSLinus Torvalds 14073531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 141b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 14273531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 14373531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 144b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1463c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1478d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 151aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 152aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 153aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1603bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1613120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1623120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1633bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 16418e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1654a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 16618e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1683120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1693120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 174b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 175b93a531eSJan Beulich 176b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 177b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1833120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1843120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1861032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1873120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1881032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1891032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1901032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1911032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1929a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1939a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1951b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1961b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1971b27d05bSPekka Enberg 198fad12ac8SThomas Renningerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE 199fad12ac8SThomas Renninger def_bool y 200fad12ac8SThomas Renninger 201dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 20289c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 203b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 20408fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 20508fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 20608fc4580STejun Heo 20708fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 20811124411STejun Heo def_bool y 20911124411STejun Heo 210801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 211801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 212801e4062SJohannes Berg 213f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 214f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 215f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 216cfe28c5dSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 217cfe28c5dSSteve Capper def_bool y 218cfe28c5dSSteve Capper 21953313b2cSSteve Capperconfig ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 22053313b2cSSteve Capper def_bool y 22153313b2cSSteve Capper 2228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2268d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2278d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2298d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 230765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 231765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 232765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2336a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2346a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2356a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 23669575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 23769575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 2386ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 23969575d38SShane Wang 2406b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2416b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2426b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2436b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2446b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2456b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2466b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2476b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2496fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 250ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 252ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 253ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 25460a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 255ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 256d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 257d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 258d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 259d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 260d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 2612b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2622b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2632b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 264506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 265dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2695ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2705ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2715ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2725ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2735ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2745ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2755ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2765ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2775ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2785ee71535SRandy Dunlap 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 2834a474157SRobert Graffham a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more 2844a474157SRobert Graffham than one CPU, say Y. 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2864a474157SRobert Graffham If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 2894a474157SRobert Graffham uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 301395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 30706cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 30806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 309d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 31006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 31106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 31206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 31406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 31506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 31706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3186695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3196e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3207a527688SJan Beulich default y 3215ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3236695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3246695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3256695c85bSYinghai Lu 32626f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 32726f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 32826f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 33026f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 332ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 333ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 334ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 335ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 3368425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 337c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 338c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 339c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 34106ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 34206ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 34306ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 34406ac8346SIngo Molnar 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3468425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 347cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3508425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 35183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3523f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 35306ac8346SIngo Molnar 35406ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 35506ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3568425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 35706ac8346SIngo Molnar 3588425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3608425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3648425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 36944b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3708425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3718425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3728425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3738425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3748425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3758425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 376c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 37844b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 37944b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 38044b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 38144b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 38244b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 38344b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 38444b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 385f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 38644b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 38744b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 38844b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 38944b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 39003b48632SNick Piggin 3916a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 392c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3936276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 3946a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3956a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 396c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 397ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 3988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3996a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4006a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 4016a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 4026a48565eSIngo Molnar 403c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 404c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 40754c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4089d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 410c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 411c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 416ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 417ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 418ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_32 419cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 420ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 421ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 422ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 423ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 424ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 425c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 426c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 427c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 428c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 429c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 430c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43137bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 432da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 433da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 434b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 435c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 436c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 437c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 438c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 439c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 4404cb9b00fSDavid Cohenconfig X86_INTEL_MID 44143605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 44243605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 44343605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 444edc6bc78SDavid Cohen depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 4451ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4461ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4471ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4487c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4494cb9b00fSDavid Cohen select I2C 4507c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4511ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4521ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 45315a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4541ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4554cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile 4564cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy 4574cb9b00fSDavid Cohen interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 4581ea7c673SAlan Cox 4594cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which 4604cb9b00fSDavid Cohen consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives. 46143605ef1SAlan Cox 4623d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 4633d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 4643d48aab1SMika Westerberg depends on ACPI 4653d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 4660f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 4673d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 4683d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 4693d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 4700f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 4710f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 4723d48aab1SMika Westerberg 473c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 474c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 476c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 477c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 478c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 479c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 480c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 481c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 482c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 483c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 484e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4859c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4869c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 487c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 489*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default 490*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary 491*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by 492*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin one and will fallback to default. 493d49c4288SYinghai Lu 494c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 495d49c4288SYinghai Lu 496d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 4976fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 498d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 499d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 500d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 501d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 502d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 503d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 504d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 50583125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 50683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 50783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 50883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 50983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 51083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 51183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 51283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 51383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 51483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 51583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 51683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 51783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 51883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 51983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 52083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 52182148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 52282148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 52382148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 52482148d1dSShérab ---help--- 52582148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 52682148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 52782148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 52882148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 52982148d1dSShérab 53082148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 53182148d1dSShérab 53282148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 53382148d1dSShérab 534ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 537a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5466276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 5476276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 5488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5496276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 5506276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 5516276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5536276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 5546276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5566276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 558e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 559e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 5608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 561e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 562e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 563e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 564e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 565e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 5666276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 5676276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 5686276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5696276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 5706276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 5716276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 5726276a074SBorislav Petkov 573b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 574b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 5756ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 5768db73266SRaghavendra K T select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 577b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 578b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 579b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 580b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 581b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5824c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 5834c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 584b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5854c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 586b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5876276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 5886276a074SBorislav Petkov 5896276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 5906276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 5916276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 5926276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5936276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 5946276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 5956276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 5966276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 5976276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 5986276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 5996276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6006276a074SBorislav Petkov 6011e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig KVM_DEBUG_FS 6021e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs" 6031e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS 6041e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri default n 6051e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri ---help--- 6061e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest. 6071e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option 6081e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri may incur significant overhead. 6091e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 6106276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 6116276a074SBorislav Petkov 6126276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 6136276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 6146276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6156276a074SBorislav Petkov default n 6166276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6176276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 6186276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 6196276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 6206276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 6216276a074SBorislav Petkov 6226276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 6236276a074SBorislav Petkov 6247af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6257af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6267af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 6276276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 62897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 62908677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 630774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 63108677214SYinghai Lu 63203273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 63303273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 635c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 63603273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 63703273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 63803273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 63903273184SYinghai Lu ... 64003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 641aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 643506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6463c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 656e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 6653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6669d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 668bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 669933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 670933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 67106c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 672a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 673bb24c471SJacob Pan help 674bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 675bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 676bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 677bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 678bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 679bb24c471SJacob Pan 6806a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 6827ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 6837ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 684cf074402SArd Biesheuvel select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK 6856a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 6868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6877ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 6887ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 6897ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 6907ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 6917ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 69338901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 69523ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 6968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 697ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 698ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 699ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 700ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 701ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 702ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 703ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 704ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 705ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 706ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 707ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 708ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 709ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 710ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 711ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 7166ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && PCI 7178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 744a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 7474454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 7484454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 7494454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 7504454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 752a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 7533120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 7543120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 755d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7561184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 757ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 7586ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 75936f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 7608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 761ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 7621184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 76536f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7662a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 767bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 768b53b5edaSJosh Boyer range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64 76978637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 770b53b5edaSJosh Boyer default "8192" if MAXSMP 771*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default "32" if SMP && X86_BIGSMP 77278637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 775bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 776bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 784b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 7923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 794b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 8040dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD && !PCI_MSI 8058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8283c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8290dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8330dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC || PCI_MSI 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 83541b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 83641b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 83741b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 83941b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 84041b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 84141b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 84241b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 84341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 84441b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 84541b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 84641b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 84741b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 84841b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 84941b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 85041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 85141b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 85241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 85341b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 85441b9eb26SStefan Assmann 85541b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 85641b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 85741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 859bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 860e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 862bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 863bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 865bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8664efc0670SAndi Kleen 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 870c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 8763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 878c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8834efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 8846fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 885c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8864efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 8874efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 8885065a706SMasanari Iida systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command 8894efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 8904efc0670SAndi Kleen 891b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 892b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 8936fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 894b2762686SAndi Kleen 895ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 896c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 897ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 898ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 899ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 900ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 901ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 902ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9034efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9044efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9055bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9064efc0670SAndi Kleen 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9086a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 935949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9559ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 9569ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9655e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 972e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 97380030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 976e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 97880cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 979e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 980e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 981e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 982e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9848d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 9858d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 987e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 988e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9908d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 991e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 9928d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 9938d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 9948d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9968d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9978d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9988d86f390SPeter Oruba 999b8989db9SAlan For the current Intel microcode data package go to 1000b8989db9SAlan <https://downloadcenter.intel.com> and search for 1001b8989db9SAlan 'Linux Processor Microcode Data File'. 10028d86f390SPeter Oruba 100380cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1004e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 100580cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 100680cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 100880cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 100980cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 101080cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1016757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1017757885e9SJacob Shin 1018757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY 1019757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1020757885e9SJacob Shin 1021757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_EARLY 1022da76f64eSFenghua Yu bool "Early load microcode" 10236b3389acSJacob Shin depends on MICROCODE=y && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1024757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY if MICROCODE_INTEL 1025757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY if MICROCODE_AMD 1026da76f64eSFenghua Yu default y 1027da76f64eSFenghua Yu help 1028da76f64eSFenghua Yu This option provides functionality to read additional microcode data 1029da76f64eSFenghua Yu at the beginning of initrd image. The data tells kernel to load 1030da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode to CPU's as early as possible. No functional change if no 1031da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode data is glued to the initrd, therefore it's safe to say Y. 1032da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 10526fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 10938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1099eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 11086a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 11559ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 11578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1163600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 11643120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11653120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1166600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 116766f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 11683120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11693120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 117066f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 11719e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 11726a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 11739e899816SNick Piggin default y 11749e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11769e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 11779e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 11789e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 11799e899816SNick Piggin 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1182fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1184*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP) 1185*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default y if X86_BIGSMP 11868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1188fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1193c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1194fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1195fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1196*b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin For 32-bit this is only needed if you boot a 32-bit 11977cf6c945SDavid Rientjes kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1198fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1199fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1201eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12045da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1206eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1207eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1208eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1209eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1210eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12206ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12216ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12226ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12236ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12246ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12256ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12266ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12276ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12286ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 12311b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 12328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1238d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 123951591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 124051591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12451184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1246692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 12493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 12533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12583b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1262b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1266b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1267b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12706ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12743b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 12753b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12763b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 12773b16651fSTejun Heo 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1280b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1283a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 12843120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1285a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1286a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1287a0842b70SToshi Kani See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. 1288a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12903b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 12913b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12923b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 12933b16651fSTejun Heo 1294a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1295a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1296a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1297a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1298a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13036fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13109f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13169f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13179f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13189f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13199f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13209f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13219f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13229f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13239f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13269f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13299f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13309f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13319f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1332c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1333c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1334c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1335c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1337c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1338c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1339c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13409ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1341d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1342d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1343d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 13448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1345d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1346fc381519SIngo Molnar 1347d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1348d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1349fc381519SIngo Molnar 1350d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1351d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1352d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1353d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1354fc381519SIngo Molnar 1355d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1356d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1357d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1358d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1359d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1360d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1361d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1362d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1363d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1364d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1365d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1366d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1367d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1368fc381519SIngo Molnar 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 13966fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 13976a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14287225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 143095ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14312ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 143295ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 143395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1435aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1436aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 143795ffa243SYinghai Lu 1438aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1439692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1440aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 144195ffa243SYinghai Lu 14422ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 144395ffa243SYinghai Lu 144495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1445f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1446f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1447f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 144895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1450f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 145195ffa243SYinghai Lu 145212031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 145312031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 145412031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 145512031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 145612031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 145812031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1459aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 146012031a62SYinghai Lu 14612e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 14626fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14636a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 14642a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 14658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 14662e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1467042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 14682e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 14692e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 14702e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14712e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1472042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 14732e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14742e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 14752e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 147646cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 147746cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 147846cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 147946cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1480628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1481628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1482628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1483628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1484628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1485628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1486628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1487628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1488628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 148951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 149051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 149151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 149251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 149351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 149451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 149551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 149651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 149751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 149851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 149951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15019ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15025b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1503f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15058b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15088b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15098b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15108b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15118b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15128b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15138b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1515291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1516291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1517291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1518291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1519291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1520291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1521291f3632SMatt Fleming 15224172fe2fSRoy Franz See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information. 15230c759662SMatt Fleming 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 15253c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15263c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 15278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 15349c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 15448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1554bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven initially work for you. As of this writing the exact hardware 1555bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be 1556bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven made. 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 155904b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 15618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15723ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 15736ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 1574fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 15758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 157689081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 157789081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 15783ab83521SHuang Ying 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 15806a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1581ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 15828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1600ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1601ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1602ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1603ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1604ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1605ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1606ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1607ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1608ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 162126717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 162226717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 16238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 16358ab3820fSKees Cook (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location. 1636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16378ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE 16388ab3820fSKees Cook bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image" 16398ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RELOCATABLE 16408ab3820fSKees Cook depends on !HIBERNATION 16418ab3820fSKees Cook default n 16428ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 16438ab3820fSKees Cook Randomizes the physical and virtual address at which the 16448ab3820fSKees Cook kernel image is decompressed, as a security feature that 16458ab3820fSKees Cook deters exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location 16468ab3820fSKees Cook of kernel internals. 16478ab3820fSKees Cook 1648a653f356SKees Cook Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is 1649a653f356SKees Cook supported. If RDTSC is supported, it is used as well. If 1650a653f356SKees Cook neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are supported, then randomness is 1651a653f356SKees Cook read from the i8254 timer. 16528ab3820fSKees Cook 16538ab3820fSKees Cook The kernel will be offset by up to RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET, 1654a653f356SKees Cook and aligned according to PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Since the kernel is 1655a653f356SKees Cook built using 2GiB addressing, and PHYSICAL_ALGIN must be at a 1656a653f356SKees Cook minimum of 2MiB, only 10 bits of entropy is theoretically 1657a653f356SKees Cook possible. At best, due to page table layouts, 64-bit can use 1658a653f356SKees Cook 9 bits of entropy and 32-bit uses 8 bits. 16598ab3820fSKees Cook 1660da2b6fb9SKees Cook If unsure, say N. 1661da2b6fb9SKees Cook 16628ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET 1663da2b6fb9SKees Cook hex "Maximum kASLR offset allowed" if EXPERT 16648ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE 16656145cfe3SKees Cook range 0x0 0x20000000 if X86_32 16666145cfe3SKees Cook default "0x20000000" if X86_32 16676145cfe3SKees Cook range 0x0 0x40000000 if X86_64 16686145cfe3SKees Cook default "0x40000000" if X86_64 16698ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 1670da2b6fb9SKees Cook The lesser of RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET and available physical 1671da2b6fb9SKees Cook memory is used to determine the maximal offset in bytes that will 1672da2b6fb9SKees Cook be applied to the kernel when kernel Address Space Layout 1673da2b6fb9SKees Cook Randomization (kASLR) is active. This must be a multiple of 1674da2b6fb9SKees Cook PHYSICAL_ALIGN. 16756145cfe3SKees Cook 1676da2b6fb9SKees Cook On 32-bit this is limited to 512MiB by page table layouts. The 1677da2b6fb9SKees Cook default is 512MiB. 16786145cfe3SKees Cook 16796145cfe3SKees Cook On 64-bit this is limited by how the kernel fixmap page table is 1680da2b6fb9SKees Cook positioned, so this cannot be larger than 1GiB currently. Without 1681da2b6fb9SKees Cook RANDOMIZE_BASE, there is a 512MiB to 1.5GiB split between kernel 1682da2b6fb9SKees Cook and modules. When RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET is above 512MiB, the 1683da2b6fb9SKees Cook modules area will shrink to compensate, up to the current maximum 1684da2b6fb9SKees Cook 1GiB to 1GiB split. The default is 1GiB. 1685da2b6fb9SKees Cook 1686da2b6fb9SKees Cook If unsure, leave at the default value. 16878ab3820fSKees Cook 16888ab3820fSKees Cook# Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support 1689845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1690845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 16918ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE) 1692845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1693506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1694a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 16958ab3820fSKees Cook default "0x200000" 1696a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 1697a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 16988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1704506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1715a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 1716a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 1717a0215061SKees Cook 1718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1720506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 17217c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 172240b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 1723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 17247c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17257c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17267c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17277c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17287c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 173080aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 173180aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 173280aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 17332c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 173480aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 173580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 173680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 173780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 173880aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 173980aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 174080aa1dffSFenghua Yu 174180aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 174280aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 174380aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 174480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 174580aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 174680aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 174780aa1dffSFenghua Yu 174880aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 174980aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 175080aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 175180aa1dffSFenghua Yu 175280aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 175380aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 175480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 175580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 175680aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 175780aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 175880aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1759a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1760a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1761a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 17622c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1763a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1764a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1765a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1766a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1767a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1768a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1769a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1770a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1771a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1772a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1773a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1774506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 17753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 17763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1777af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 17788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1779af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1780e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1787516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1788516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 17898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1790516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1791516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1792516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1793516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1794516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1795516cbf37STim Bird 1796516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1797516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1798516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1799516cbf37STim Bird 1800516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1801516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1802516cbf37STim Bird 1803516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1804516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1805516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1806516cbf37STim Bird default "" 18078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1808516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1809516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1810516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1811516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1812516cbf37STim Bird 1813516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1814516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1815516cbf37STim Bird 1816516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1817516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1818516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1819516cbf37STim Bird 1820516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1821516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1822516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 18238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1824516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1825516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1826516cbf37STim Bird 1827516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1828516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1829516cbf37STim Bird 1830506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1832506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 183635551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 183735551053SGary Hade def_bool y 183835551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 183935551053SGary Hade 1840e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1841645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1842e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1843e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 18449491846fSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 18459491846fSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 18469491846fSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 18479491846fSKirill A. Shutemov 1848da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1858efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1859efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1860a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 18616fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1862282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1863a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1866efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 18822dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 18832dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 19278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1950dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 19638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 19768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1986bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 199027471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 199127471fdbSAndy Henroid 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 19981ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 19991c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 20008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2008efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2030e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20343ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 203576fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20363ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20373ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20382bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20392bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20402bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2045efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20500aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20545f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20563ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 20572bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 20582bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 20593ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2060b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2061b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2062b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2063b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2064b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2065e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 20663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2067e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2068e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2069e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20733f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 20746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 20756ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 20763f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 20773f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 20783f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 20793f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 20803f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 208164a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 208264a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 208364a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 208464a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 208564a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2086e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2087e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2088e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2089e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20901c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2091e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 20921c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 20931c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 20941c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 20951c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 20961c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2097e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2098e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2101e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 21028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2103e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2105e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2106e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2107e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2108e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2109e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2110e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2111e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2112e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2113e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2114e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2115e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2116e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2117e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2118e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2119e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2120e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2121e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2122e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2123e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2124e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2125e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2126e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2127e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2128e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2130e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2131e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2132e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2133e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2134e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2135e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2136e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2137e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2138e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2139592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2140e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2142e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2143e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2144e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2145e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2146e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2147e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21483ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21493ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 215054008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21513c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2152dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 215345bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2154b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 21558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 21563ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 21573ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 21583ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2159a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2160a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 216197c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2162a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2163bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 216497c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2165bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2166cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2167cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2168cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2169cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2170cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2171cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2172cfee9597SDaniel Drake 21737feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 21747feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2175d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2176ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2177d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 21787feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 21797feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 21807feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 21817feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 21827bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 21837feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 21847bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 21852cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2186e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2187e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 21887feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2189a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2190a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2191d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2192d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2193a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2194a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2195a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2196a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2197a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2198e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2199d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2200d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2201d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2202d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2203d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2204d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2205d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2206d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2207d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2208d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2209d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2210d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2211d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2212d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2213da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2214da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2215da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2216da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2217da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2218da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 22193197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 22203197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 22213197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 22223197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 22233197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 22243197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 22253197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 22267d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 22277d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 22287d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 22297d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 22307d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 22317d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 22327d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 22337d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 22347d029125SVivien Didelot 2235e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2236e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 223723ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2238e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22390e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2240e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2241e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2242e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2243e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2244e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2245388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2246fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine tristate "RapidIO support" 2247388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2248388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2249388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2250fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine If enabled this option will include drivers and the core 2251388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2252388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2253388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2254388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2255e3263ab3SDavid Herrmannconfig X86_SYSFB 2256e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" 2257e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann help 2258e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, 2259e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for 2260e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS 2261e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited 2262e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann to x86. 2263e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic 2264e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be 2265e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann used on x86. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic 2266e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann modes, it is adverticed as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy 2267e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. 2268e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always 2269e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. 2270e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2271e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will 2272e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option 2273e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as 2274e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal 2275e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb 2276e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is 2277e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann incompatible with simplefb. 2278e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2279e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If unsure, say Y. 2280e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2281e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2282e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2283e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2284e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2285e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2286e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2287e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2288e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2289e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2290e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2291d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 2292a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2293af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 22948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 22955fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 22965fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 22975fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2298e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2299e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2300e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 23016b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 23028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2303e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2304e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23050bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 23066ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 23076ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION 23085fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 23095fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 23105fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 23115fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 23125fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 23135fd92e65SH. J. Lu 23145fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 23155fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 23165fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 23175fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2318e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 23193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23200bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 232148b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2322e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23233120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2324e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 23253120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2326e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2327e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 23283c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23293120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2330e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2331ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 23323120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 23333120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 23343120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2335ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2336e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2337e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2338e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2339e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2340e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2341e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2342e5beae16SKeith Packard 23434692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 23444692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 234583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 23464692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2347f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2348f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 234983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2350f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 235146184415SDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI 235246184415SDavid E. Box bool 235346184415SDavid E. Box depends on PCI 235446184415SDavid E. Box ---help--- 235546184415SDavid E. Box To be selected by modules requiring access to the Intel OnChip System 235646184415SDavid E. Box Fabric (IOSF) Sideband MailBox Interface (MBI). For MBI platforms 235746184415SDavid E. Box enumerable by PCI. 235846184415SDavid E. Box 2359e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2360e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2361e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2362e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2363e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2364e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2365e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2366e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2367e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2368e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2369e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2370e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2371e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2372e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2373edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2374edf88417SAvi Kivity 2375e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2376