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 465b7c73e0SMark Salter select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 47c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 48e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 49e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 50d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 51cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 52677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 5306aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 54606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 5548d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 5671e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5760a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5866700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 597ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 60e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 6149793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 6299bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 63323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 6458340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 658d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 66f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 672118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 682e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 692e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 702e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 7130314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 7213510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 73f9b493acSKyungsik Lee select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 740067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 750102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 7699e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 77c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 78c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 79c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 80b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 8199e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 82eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 83eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 842565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 850a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 867c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 87e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8846eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 897463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 90141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 91c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 923bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 933bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 94517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 95d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 96c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 97e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9815626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 990a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 100df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 1014673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 102e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 1037eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 104c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 105c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1068b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 107bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1080f8975ecSPavel Emelyanov select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 109bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 110bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 111d2312e33SStefani Seibold select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA 112bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 113d2312e33SStefani Seibold select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 114bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1154ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1165723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11791d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 118fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1194febd95aSStephen Rothwell select VIRT_TO_BUS 120786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 121786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1221d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 12383a57a4dSDavid Woodhouse select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 12415ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1255b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 1265b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1273195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 128d1a1dc0bSDave Hansen select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 129a2cd11f7SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 13019952a92SKees Cook select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1312b9c1f03SArd Biesheuvel select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE 1327a017721SAKASHI Takahiro select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 1337d8330a5SBalbir Singh 134ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1353120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1363120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 137ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 13851b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 13951b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 14051b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 14151b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 14251b26adaSLinus Torvalds 14373531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 144b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 14573531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 14673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 147b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 154aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 155aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 156aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1633bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1643120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1653120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1663bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 16718e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1684a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 16918e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1713120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1723120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 177b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 178b93a531eSJan Beulich 179b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 180b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1863120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1873120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1891032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1903120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1911032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1921032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1931032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1941032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1959a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1969a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1981b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1991b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 2001b27d05bSPekka Enberg 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 264d20642f0SRob Herringconfig FIX_EARLYCON_MEM 265d20642f0SRob Herring def_bool y 266d20642f0SRob Herring 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 268dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 270506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2725ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2735ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2745ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2755ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2765ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2775ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2785ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2795ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2805ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2815ee71535SRandy Dunlap 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 2864a474157SRobert Graffham a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more 2874a474157SRobert Graffham than one CPU, say Y. 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2894a474157SRobert Graffham If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 2924a474157SRobert Graffham uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 304395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 31006cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 31106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 312d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 31306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 31406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 31506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 31706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 31806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 31906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 32006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3216695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3226e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3237a527688SJan Beulich default y 3245ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3266695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3276695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3286695c85bSYinghai Lu 32926f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 33026f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 33126f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 33326f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 335ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 336ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 337ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 338ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 3398425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 340c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 341c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 342c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 34406ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 34506ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 34606ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 34706ac8346SIngo Molnar 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 350cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 3518425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3528425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 35483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3553f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 35606ac8346SIngo Molnar 35706ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 35806ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 36006ac8346SIngo Molnar 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3648425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3698425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3708425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3718425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 37244b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3738425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3748425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3758425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3768425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3778425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3788425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 38144b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 38244b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 38344b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 38444b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 38544b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 38644b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 38744b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 388f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 38944b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 39044b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 39144b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 39244b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 39303b48632SNick Piggin 3946a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 395c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3966276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 3976a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3986a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 399c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 400ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 4018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4026a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4036a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 4046a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 4056a48565eSIngo Molnar 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 41054c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4119d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 415c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 417c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 419ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 420ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 421cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 422ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 423ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 424ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 425ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 426ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 427c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 428c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 429c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 430c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 431c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 432c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43337bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 434da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 435da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 436b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 437c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 438c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 439c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 440c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 441c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 4424cb9b00fSDavid Cohenconfig X86_INTEL_MID 44343605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 44443605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 44543605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 446edc6bc78SDavid Cohen depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 4471ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4481ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4491ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4507c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4514cb9b00fSDavid Cohen select I2C 4527c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4531ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4541ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 45515a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4561ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4574cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile 4584cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy 4594cb9b00fSDavid Cohen interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 4601ea7c673SAlan Cox 4614cb9b00fSDavid Cohen Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which 4624cb9b00fSDavid Cohen consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives. 46343605ef1SAlan Cox 4643d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 4653d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 4663d48aab1SMika Westerberg depends on ACPI 4673d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 4680f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 4693d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 4703d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 4713d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 4720f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 4730f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 4743d48aab1SMika Westerberg 475c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 476c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 478c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 479c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 480c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 481c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 482c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 483c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 484c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 485c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 486e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4879c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4889c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 489c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 491b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default 492b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary 493b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by 494b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin one and will fallback to default. 495d49c4288SYinghai Lu 496c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 497d49c4288SYinghai Lu 498d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 4996fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 500d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 501d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 502d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 503d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 504d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 505d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 506d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 50783125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 50883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 50983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 51083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 51183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 51283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 51383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 51483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 51583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 51683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 51783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 51883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 51983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 52083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 52183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 52283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 52382148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 52482148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 52582148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 52682148d1dSShérab ---help--- 52782148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 52882148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 52982148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 53082148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 53182148d1dSShérab 53282148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 53382148d1dSShérab 53482148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 53582148d1dSShérab 536ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 539a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5486276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 5496276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 5508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5516276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 5526276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 5536276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5556276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 5566276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5586276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 560e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 561e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 5628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 563e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 564e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 565e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 566e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 567e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 5686276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 5696276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 5706276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5716276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 5726276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 5736276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 5746276a074SBorislav Petkov 575b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 576b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 5776ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 5788db73266SRaghavendra K T select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 579b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 580b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 581b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 582b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 583b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5844c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 5854c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 586b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5874c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 588b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5896276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 5906276a074SBorislav Petkov 5916276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 5926276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 5936276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 5946276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5956276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 5966276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 5976276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 5986276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 5996276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 6006276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 6016276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6026276a074SBorislav Petkov 6031e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig KVM_DEBUG_FS 6041e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs" 6051e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS 6061e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri default n 6071e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri ---help--- 6081e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest. 6091e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option 6101e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri may incur significant overhead. 6111e20eb85SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 6126276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 6136276a074SBorislav Petkov 6146276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 6156276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 6166276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6176276a074SBorislav Petkov default n 6186276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6196276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 6206276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 6216276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 6226276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 6236276a074SBorislav Petkov 6246276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 6256276a074SBorislav Petkov 6267af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6277af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6287af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 6296276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 63097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 63108677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 632774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 63308677214SYinghai Lu 63403273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 63503273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 637c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 63803273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 63903273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 64003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 64103273184SYinghai Lu ... 64203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 643aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 658e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 6673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6689d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 670bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 671933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 672933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 67306c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 674a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 675bb24c471SJacob Pan help 676bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 677bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 678bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 679bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 680bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 681bb24c471SJacob Pan 6826a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 6847ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 6857ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 686cf074402SArd Biesheuvel select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK 6876a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 6888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6897ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 6907ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 6917ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 6927ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 6937ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 69538901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 69723ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 6988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 699ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 700ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 701ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 702ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 703ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 704ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 705ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 706ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 707ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 708ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 709ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 710ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 711ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 712ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 713ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 7186ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && PCI 7198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 746a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 7494454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 7504454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 7514454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 7524454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 754a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 7553120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 7563120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 757d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7581184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 759ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 7606ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 76136f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 7628f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 763ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 7641184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 76736f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7682a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 769bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 770b53b5edaSJosh Boyer range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64 77178637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 772b53b5edaSJosh Boyer default "8192" if MAXSMP 773b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default "32" if SMP && X86_BIGSMP 77478637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 777bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 778bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 786b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 7943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 796b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 8060dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD && !PCI_MSI 8078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8310dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8343c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8350dbc6078SThomas Petazzoni depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC || PCI_MSI 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 83741b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 83841b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 83941b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 84141b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 84241b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 84341b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 84441b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 84541b9eb26SStefan Assmann 84641b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 84741b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 84841b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 84941b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 85041b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 85141b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 85241b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 85341b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 85441b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 85541b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 85641b9eb26SStefan Assmann 85741b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 85841b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 85941b9eb26SStefan Assmann 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 861bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 862e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 864bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 865bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 867bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8684efc0670SAndi Kleen 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 872c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 8783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 880c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8854efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 8866fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 887c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8884efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 8894efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 8905065a706SMasanari Iida systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command 8914efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 8924efc0670SAndi Kleen 893b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 894b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 8956fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 896b2762686SAndi Kleen 897ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 898c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 899ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 900ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 901ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 902ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 903ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 904ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9054efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9064efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9075bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9084efc0670SAndi Kleen 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9106a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 937949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9579ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 9589ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9675e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 974e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 97580030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 978e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 98080cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 981e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 982e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 983e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 984e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9868d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 9878d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 989e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 990e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9928d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 993e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 9948d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 9958d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 9968d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9988d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9998d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10008d86f390SPeter Oruba 1001b8989db9SAlan For the current Intel microcode data package go to 1002b8989db9SAlan <https://downloadcenter.intel.com> and search for 1003b8989db9SAlan 'Linux Processor Microcode Data File'. 10048d86f390SPeter Oruba 100580cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1006e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 100780cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 100880cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 101080cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 101180cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 101280cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1017da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1018757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1019757885e9SJacob Shin 1020757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY 1021757885e9SJacob Shin def_bool n 1022757885e9SJacob Shin 1023757885e9SJacob Shinconfig MICROCODE_EARLY 1024da76f64eSFenghua Yu bool "Early load microcode" 10256b3389acSJacob Shin depends on MICROCODE=y && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1026757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY if MICROCODE_INTEL 1027757885e9SJacob Shin select MICROCODE_AMD_EARLY if MICROCODE_AMD 1028da76f64eSFenghua Yu default y 1029da76f64eSFenghua Yu help 1030da76f64eSFenghua Yu This option provides functionality to read additional microcode data 1031da76f64eSFenghua Yu at the beginning of initrd image. The data tells kernel to load 1032da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode to CPU's as early as possible. No functional change if no 1033da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode data is glued to the initrd, therefore it's safe to say Y. 1034da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10378f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 10546fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 10958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1101eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 11106a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 11579ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 11598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1165600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 11663120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11673120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1168600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 116966f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 11703120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11713120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 117266f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 11739e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 11746a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 11759e899816SNick Piggin default y 11769e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11789e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 11799e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 11809e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 11819e899816SNick Piggin 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1184fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1186b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP) 1187b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin default y if X86_BIGSMP 11888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1190fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1195c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1196fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1197fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1198b5660ba7SH. Peter Anvin For 32-bit this is only needed if you boot a 32-bit 11997cf6c945SDavid Rientjes kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1200fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1201fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1203eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12065da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1208eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1209eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1210eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1211eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1212eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12226ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12236ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12246ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12256ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12266ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12276ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12286ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12296ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12306ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 12331b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 12348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1240d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 124151591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 124251591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12471184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1248692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 12513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 12553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12603b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1264b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1268b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1269b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12726ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12763b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 12773b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12783b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 12793b16651fSTejun Heo 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1282b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1285a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 12863120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1287a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1288a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1289a0842b70SToshi Kani See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more information. 1290a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12923b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 12933b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12943b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 12953b16651fSTejun Heo 1296a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1297a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1298a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1299a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1300a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13056fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13169f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13179f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13189f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13199f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13209f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13219f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13229f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13239f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13269f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13299f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13309f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13319f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13329f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13339f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1334c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1335c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1336c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1337c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1339c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1340c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1341c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13429ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1343d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1344d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1345d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 13468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1347d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1348fc381519SIngo Molnar 1349d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1350d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1351fc381519SIngo Molnar 1352d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1353d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1354d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1355d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1356fc381519SIngo Molnar 1357d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1358d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1359d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1360d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1361d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1362d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1363d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1364d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1365d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1366d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1367d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1368d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1369d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1370fc381519SIngo Molnar 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 13986fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 13996a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14307225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 143295ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14332ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 143495ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 143595ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1437aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1438aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 143995ffa243SYinghai Lu 1440aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1441692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1442aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 144395ffa243SYinghai Lu 14442ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 144595ffa243SYinghai Lu 144695ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1447f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1448f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1449f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 145095ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1452f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 145395ffa243SYinghai Lu 145412031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 145512031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 145612031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 145712031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 145812031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 146012031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1461aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 146212031a62SYinghai Lu 14632e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 14646fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14656a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 14662a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 14678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 14682e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1469042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 14702e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 14712e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 14722e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14732e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1474042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 14752e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14762e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 14772e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 147846cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 147946cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 148046cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 148146cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1482628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1483628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1484628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1485628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1486628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1487628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1488628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1489628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1490628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 149151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 149251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 149351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 149451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 149551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 149651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 149751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 149851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 149951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 150051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 150151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15039ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15045b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1505f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15078b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15108b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15118b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15128b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15138b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15148b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15158b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1517291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1518291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1519291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1520291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1521291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1522291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1523291f3632SMatt Fleming 15244172fe2fSRoy Franz See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information. 15250c759662SMatt Fleming 15267d453eeeSMatt Flemingconfig EFI_MIXED 15277d453eeeSMatt Fleming bool "EFI mixed-mode support" 15287d453eeeSMatt Fleming depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64 15297d453eeeSMatt Fleming ---help--- 15307d453eeeSMatt Fleming Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted 15317d453eeeSMatt Fleming on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit 15327d453eeeSMatt Fleming mode. 15337d453eeeSMatt Fleming 15347d453eeeSMatt Fleming Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled 15357d453eeeSMatt Fleming kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports 15367d453eeeSMatt Fleming the EFI handover protocol must be used. 15377d453eeeSMatt Fleming 15387d453eeeSMatt Fleming If unsure, say N. 15397d453eeeSMatt Fleming 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 15413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 15438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 15509c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 15608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1570bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven initially work for you. As of this writing the exact hardware 1571bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be 1572bf220695SGeert Uytterhoeven made. 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 157504b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 15778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15883ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 15896ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 1590fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 15918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 159289081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 159389081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 15943ab83521SHuang Ying 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 15966a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1597ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 15988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1616ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1617ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1618ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1619ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1620ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1621ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1622ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1623ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1624ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1636506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 163726717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 163826717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 16398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 16518ab3820fSKees Cook (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location. 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16538ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE 16548ab3820fSKees Cook bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image" 16558ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RELOCATABLE 16568ab3820fSKees Cook depends on !HIBERNATION 16578ab3820fSKees Cook default n 16588ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 16598ab3820fSKees Cook Randomizes the physical and virtual address at which the 16608ab3820fSKees Cook kernel image is decompressed, as a security feature that 16618ab3820fSKees Cook deters exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location 16628ab3820fSKees Cook of kernel internals. 16638ab3820fSKees Cook 1664a653f356SKees Cook Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is 1665a653f356SKees Cook supported. If RDTSC is supported, it is used as well. If 1666a653f356SKees Cook neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are supported, then randomness is 1667a653f356SKees Cook read from the i8254 timer. 16688ab3820fSKees Cook 16698ab3820fSKees Cook The kernel will be offset by up to RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET, 1670a653f356SKees Cook and aligned according to PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Since the kernel is 1671a653f356SKees Cook built using 2GiB addressing, and PHYSICAL_ALGIN must be at a 1672a653f356SKees Cook minimum of 2MiB, only 10 bits of entropy is theoretically 1673a653f356SKees Cook possible. At best, due to page table layouts, 64-bit can use 1674a653f356SKees Cook 9 bits of entropy and 32-bit uses 8 bits. 16758ab3820fSKees Cook 1676da2b6fb9SKees Cook If unsure, say N. 1677da2b6fb9SKees Cook 16788ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET 1679da2b6fb9SKees Cook hex "Maximum kASLR offset allowed" if EXPERT 16808ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE 16816145cfe3SKees Cook range 0x0 0x20000000 if X86_32 16826145cfe3SKees Cook default "0x20000000" if X86_32 16836145cfe3SKees Cook range 0x0 0x40000000 if X86_64 16846145cfe3SKees Cook default "0x40000000" if X86_64 16858ab3820fSKees Cook ---help--- 1686da2b6fb9SKees Cook The lesser of RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET and available physical 1687da2b6fb9SKees Cook memory is used to determine the maximal offset in bytes that will 1688da2b6fb9SKees Cook be applied to the kernel when kernel Address Space Layout 1689da2b6fb9SKees Cook Randomization (kASLR) is active. This must be a multiple of 1690da2b6fb9SKees Cook PHYSICAL_ALIGN. 16916145cfe3SKees Cook 1692da2b6fb9SKees Cook On 32-bit this is limited to 512MiB by page table layouts. The 1693da2b6fb9SKees Cook default is 512MiB. 16946145cfe3SKees Cook 16956145cfe3SKees Cook On 64-bit this is limited by how the kernel fixmap page table is 1696da2b6fb9SKees Cook positioned, so this cannot be larger than 1GiB currently. Without 1697da2b6fb9SKees Cook RANDOMIZE_BASE, there is a 512MiB to 1.5GiB split between kernel 1698da2b6fb9SKees Cook and modules. When RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET is above 512MiB, the 1699da2b6fb9SKees Cook modules area will shrink to compensate, up to the current maximum 1700da2b6fb9SKees Cook 1GiB to 1GiB split. The default is 1GiB. 1701da2b6fb9SKees Cook 1702da2b6fb9SKees Cook If unsure, leave at the default value. 17038ab3820fSKees Cook 17048ab3820fSKees Cook# Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support 1705845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1706845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 17078ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE) 1708845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1709506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1710a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 17118ab3820fSKees Cook default "0x200000" 1712a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 1713a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 17148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1731a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 1732a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 1733a0215061SKees Cook 1734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1736506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 17377c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 173840b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 1739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 17407c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17417c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17427c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17437c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17447c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 174680aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 174780aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 174880aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 17492c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 175080aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 175180aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 175280aa1dffSFenghua Yu 175380aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 175480aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 175580aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 175680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 175780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 175880aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 175980aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 176080aa1dffSFenghua Yu 176180aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 176280aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 176380aa1dffSFenghua Yu 176480aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 176580aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 176680aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 176780aa1dffSFenghua Yu 176880aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 176980aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 177080aa1dffSFenghua Yu 177180aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 177280aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 177380aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 177480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1775a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1776a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1777a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 17782c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1779a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1780a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1781a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1782a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1783a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1784a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1785a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1786a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1787a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1788a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1789a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1790506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 1791b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 1792b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)" 1793af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 17948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1795b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are 1796b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address 1797b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski indicated in its segment table. 1798e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1799b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a 1800b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and 1801b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is 1802b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9 1803b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2". 1804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1805b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying: 1806b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 1807b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 1808b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot 1809b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely. 1810b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance. 1811b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 1812b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you 1813b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc. 1814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1815516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1816516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 18178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1818516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1819516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1820516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1821516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1822516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1823516cbf37STim Bird 1824516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1825516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1826516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1827516cbf37STim Bird 1828516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1829516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1830516cbf37STim Bird 1831516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1832516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1833516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1834516cbf37STim Bird default "" 18358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1836516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1837516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1838516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1839516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1840516cbf37STim Bird 1841516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1842516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1843516cbf37STim Bird 1844516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1845516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1846516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1847516cbf37STim Bird 1848516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1849516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1850516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 18518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1852516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1853516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1854516cbf37STim Bird 1855516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1856516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1857516cbf37STim Bird 1858506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1860506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 186435551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 186535551053SGary Hade def_bool y 186635551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 186735551053SGary Hade 1868e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1869645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1870e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1871e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 18729491846fSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK 18739491846fSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 18749491846fSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 18759491846fSKirill A. Shutemov 1876*c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchiconfig ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION 1877*c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi def_bool y 1878*c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi depends on X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION 1879*c177c81eSNaoya Horiguchi 1880da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1890efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1891efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1892a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 18936fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1894282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1895a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1898efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 19142dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 19152dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 19598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1982dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 19958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 20088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 202227471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 202327471fdbSAndy Henroid 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 20301ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 20311c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 20328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2040efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2044e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2045e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2050e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2053e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2054e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2058e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2059e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2060e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2061e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2062e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2063e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2064e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2065e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20663ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 206776fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20683ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20693ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20702bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20712bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20722bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2077efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2079e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2080e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20820aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2083e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2084e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20865f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2087e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20883ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 20892bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 20902bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 20913ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2092b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2093b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2094b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2095b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2096b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2097e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 20983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2101e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2102e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2103e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21053f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 21066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 21076ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 21083f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 21093f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 21103f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 21113f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 21123f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 211364a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 211464a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 211564a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 211664a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 211764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2118e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2119e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2120e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2121e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21221c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2123e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 21241c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 21251c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 21261c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 21271c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 21281c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2129e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2130e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2131e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2132e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2133e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 21348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2135e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2136e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2137e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2138e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2139e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2140e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2141e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2142e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2143e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2144e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2145e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2146e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2147e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2148e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2149e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2150e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2151e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2152e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2153e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2154e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2155e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2156e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2157e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2158e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2159e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2160e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2162e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2163e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2164e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2165e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2166e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2167e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2168e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2169e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2170e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2171592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2172e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2174e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2175e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2176e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2177e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2178e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2179e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21803ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21813ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 218254008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21833c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2184dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 218545bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2186b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 21878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 21883ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 21893ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 21903ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2191a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2192a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 219397c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2194a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2195bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 219697c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2197bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2198cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2199cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2200cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2201cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2202cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2203cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2204cfee9597SDaniel Drake 22057feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 22067feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2207d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2208ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2209d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 22107feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 22117feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 22127feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 22137feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 22147bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 22157feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 22167bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 22172cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2218e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2219e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 22207feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2221a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2222a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2223d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2224d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2225a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2226a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2227a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2228a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2229a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2230e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2231d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2232d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2233d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2234d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2235d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2236d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2237d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2238d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2239d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2240d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2241d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2242d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2243d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2244d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2245da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2246da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2247da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2248da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2249da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2250da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 22513197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 22523197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 22533197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 22543197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 22553197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 22563197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 22573197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 22587d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 22597d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 22607d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 22617d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 22627d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 22637d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 22647d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 22657d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 22667d029125SVivien Didelot 2267e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2268e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 226923ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2270e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22710e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2272e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2273e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2274e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2275e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2276e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2277388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2278fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine tristate "RapidIO support" 2279388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2280388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2281388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2282fdf90abcSAlexandre Bounine If enabled this option will include drivers and the core 2283388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2284388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2285388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2286388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2287e3263ab3SDavid Herrmannconfig X86_SYSFB 2288e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" 2289e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann help 2290e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, 2291e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for 2292e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS 2293e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited 2294e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann to x86. 2295e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic 2296e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be 2297e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann used on x86. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic 2298e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann modes, it is adverticed as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy 2299e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. 2300e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always 2301e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. 2302e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2303e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will 2304e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option 2305e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as 2306e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal 2307e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb 2308e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is 2309e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann incompatible with simplefb. 2310e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2311e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann If unsure, say Y. 2312e3263ab3SDavid Herrmann 2313e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2314e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2315e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2316e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2317e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2318e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2319e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2320e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2321e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2322e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2323d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 2324a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2325af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 23268f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 23275fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 23285fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 23295fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2330e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2331e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2332e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 23336b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 23348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2335e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2336e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23370bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 23386ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 23396ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION 23405fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 23415fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 23425fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 23435fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 23445fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 23455fd92e65SH. J. Lu 23465fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 23475fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 23485fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 23495fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2350e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 23513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23520bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 235348b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2354e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23553120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2356e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 23573120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2358e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2359e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 23603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23613120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2362e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2363ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 23643120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 23653120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 23663120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2367ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2368e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2369e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2370e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2371e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2372e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2373e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2374e5beae16SKeith Packard 23754692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 23764692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 237783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 23784692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2379f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2380f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 238183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2382f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 238346184415SDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI 23846b8f0c87SDavid E. Box tristate 23856b8f0c87SDavid E. Box default m 238646184415SDavid E. Box depends on PCI 238746184415SDavid E. Box 2388e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2389e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2390e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2391e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2392e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2393e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2394e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2395e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2396e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2397e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2398e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2399e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2400e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2401e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2402edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2403edf88417SAvi Kivity 2404e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2405