11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 88f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 2728b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 283f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 291f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 30da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 319edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 32e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 33677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3548d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3660a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 379a5fd902SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER if DYNAMIC_FTRACE 381b3fa2ceSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS 39e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 4049793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 4199bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 42323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4358340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 448d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 452118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 462e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 472e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 482e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 497d8330a5SBalbir Singh 5051b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 5151b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 5251b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 5351b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 5451b26adaSLinus Torvalds 5573531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 56b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 5773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 5873531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 59b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 82aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 83aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 84aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 851f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 861f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 871f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 881f84260cSChristoph Lameter 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 903c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 993c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 1023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 107b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 108b93a531eSJan Beulich 109b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 110b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 115a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1169ba16087SJan Beulich bool 117a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1188d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1208d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1211032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1221032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1231032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1241032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1251032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1261032c0baSSam Ravnborg 127a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 128a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 129a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1301032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1311032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1321032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1338d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1348d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1379a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1389a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 14089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 14189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 14289cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1431b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1441b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1451b27d05bSPekka Enberg 146dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 14789c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 148b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 14911124411STejun Heoconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA 15011124411STejun Heo def_bool y 15111124411STejun Heo 1529f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1539f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1549f0e8d04SMike Travis 155801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 156801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 157801e4062SJohannes Berg 158f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 159f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 160f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 172765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 173765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 174765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1756a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 1766a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 1776a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1828d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 183f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ 184f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 185f9a36fa5SThomas Gleixner 1868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1956cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1966cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1976cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1986cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1996b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2006b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2016b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2026b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2036b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2046b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2056b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2066b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 209ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2143e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 217ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 218ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 21960a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 220ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 2218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 224dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 25203502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 25806cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 25906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 260f7d7f866SDavid Woodhouse depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && INTR_REMAP 26106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 26206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 26306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 26406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 26506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 26606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 26706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 26806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 2690b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2700b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 27117483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 273973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 274973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 275973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2760b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 277973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 278973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 279973656feSIngo Molnar 280973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2810b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 28215e957d0SYinghai Luconfig NUMA_IRQ_DESC 28315e957d0SYinghai Lu def_bool y 284b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 28548a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2866695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2877a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2887a527688SJan Beulich default y 2895ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2916695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2926695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2936695c85bSYinghai Lu 29426f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 29526f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 29626f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 2978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 29826f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 29926f7ef14SYinghai Lu 3008425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 301c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 302c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 303c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 30506ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 30606ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 30706ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 30806ac8346SIngo Molnar 3098425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3108425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3118425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3128425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3138425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3148425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 3158425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3168425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 31706ac8346SIngo Molnar 31806ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 31906ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3208425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 32106ac8346SIngo Molnar 3228425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3238425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3248425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3258425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3268425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3278425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3288425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3298425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3308425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3318425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 3338425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3358425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3368425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3378425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3388425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 339c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 340c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 34103b48632SNick Piggin 3426a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 343c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3446a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3456a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 346c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3486a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3496a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3506a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3516a48565eSIngo Molnar 352c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 353c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 354c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 355c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 35654c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 3579d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 358c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 359c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 360c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 361c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 362c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 363c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 364c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3659e111f3eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_ELAN 3669e111f3eSIngo Molnar bool "AMD Elan" 3679e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 368c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3709e111f3eSIngo Molnar Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 3719e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3729e111f3eSIngo Molnar Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 3739e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3749e111f3eSIngo Molnar If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 3759e111f3eSIngo Molnar 376c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 377c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 378c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 379c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 380c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 381c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 382c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 383c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 384c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 385c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 386c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 387e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3889c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3899c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 390c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3929c398017SIngo Molnar This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 3939c398017SIngo Molnar subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 3949c398017SIngo Molnar if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 3959c398017SIngo Molnar fallback to default. 3969c398017SIngo Molnar 397c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 398c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3999c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NUMAQ 4009c398017SIngo Molnar bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 401e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4029c398017SIngo Molnar select NUMA 4039c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 4048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4059c398017SIngo Molnar This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 4069c398017SIngo Molnar NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 4079c398017SIngo Molnar bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 4089c398017SIngo Molnar of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 4099c398017SIngo Molnar firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 4109c398017SIngo Molnar 411c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_VISWS 412c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 413c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 414c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 415c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 416c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 417c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 418c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 419c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 420c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 421c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 422c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 423c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 4249c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 4259c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 426e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4289c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 4299c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 4309c398017SIngo Molnar 4319c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 432c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 43326f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 4348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4359c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 4369c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 4379c398017SIngo Molnar 438ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 4393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 441a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 4428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 458506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 460506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 462506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 46542d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 472790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 473790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 474790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 475f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 477790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 478790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 479790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 480790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 481790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 482790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4830cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4840cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4850cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4870cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4880cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4890cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 490506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 492e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 493e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 4948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 495e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 496e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 497e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 498e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 499e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 500b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 501b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 502b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL 503b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 504b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 505b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 506b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 507b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 508b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on 509b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge native kernels, with various workloads. 510b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 511b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 512b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 5137af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 5147af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 5157af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 5167af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 51997349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 52097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 52197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 5228f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 52397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 52497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 52597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 52603273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 52703273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 5288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 529c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 53003273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 53103273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 53203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 53303273184SYinghai Lu ... 53403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 535aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 5383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 539e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 5423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 543e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 5483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 5508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 558e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5689d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5727ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5737ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5747ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5758f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5767ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5777ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5787ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5797ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5807ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 581506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 5878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 6028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 616506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 6173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 6208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6272b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 6282b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 62907c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 630a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 63124d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 6328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 63318d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 63418d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 63518d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 63618d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 63718d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 63818d22200SJoerg Roedel 63918d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 64018d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 64118d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 6422b188723SJoerg Roedel 6432e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 6442e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 6452e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 6462e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 6478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6482e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 6492e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6502e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6512e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6522e117604SJoerg Roedel 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 655a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 663a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 66418b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 665d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6661aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6671aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6681aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6691184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6701184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 67136f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 67236f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6731184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6751184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6761184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 67936f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 6802a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 68136f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 68278637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 683d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 68478637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 68578637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 6868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 688d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 694506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 696b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 7043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 706b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 716e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 7178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 7308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 7403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 741e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 742ee06094fSIngo Molnar select HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS if (!M386 && !M486) 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 7453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 746e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 7493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 75241b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 75341b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 75441b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 75541b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 7568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 75741b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 75841b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 75941b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 76041b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 76141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 76241b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 76341b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 76441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 76541b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 76641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 76741b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 76841b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 76941b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 77041b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 77141b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 77241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 77341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 77441b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 77541b9eb26SStefan Assmann 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 777bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 779bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 780bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 782bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 787*c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 795*c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8004efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 8014efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool n 802c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 8034efc0670SAndi Kleen prompt "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 8044efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 8054efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 8064efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 8074efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 8084efc0670SAndi Kleen 809b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 810b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 811b2762686SAndi Kleen bool 812b2762686SAndi Kleen default y 813b2762686SAndi Kleen 814ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 815*c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 816ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 817ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 818ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 819ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 820ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 821ea149b36SAndi Kleen 8224efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 8234efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 8245bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 8254efc0670SAndi Kleen 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 8308f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 858506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 868506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8739ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8749ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8835e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8908d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 89480cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 89580cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 89680cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 89780cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 89880cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 89980cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9018d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 9028d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9078d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 90818dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 9098d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 9108d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 9118d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 9138d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 9148d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 9158d86f390SPeter Oruba 9168d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 9178d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 9188d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 9198d86f390SPeter Oruba 92080cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 92118dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 92280cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 92380cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 9248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 92580cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 92680cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 92780cc9f10SPeter Oruba 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 9293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 9348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 9438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9499b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajputconfig X86_CPU_DEBUG 9509b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput tristate "/sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/* - CPU Debug support" 9519b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput ---help--- 9529b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput If you select this option, this will provide various x86 CPUs 9539b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput information through debugfs. 9549b779edfSJaswinder Singh Rajput 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 10018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 10098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1019506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 10208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1021506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10649ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1072600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1073600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1074600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10759e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10769e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10779e899816SNick Piggin default y 10789e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10809e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10819e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10829e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10839e899816SNick Piggin 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1086fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 10880699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 10890699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 10908f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1092fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1097c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1098fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1099fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1100fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1101fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1102fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1103fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1104fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 11103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 11138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 11258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11286ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 11296ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 11306ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 11316ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 11326ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 11336ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 11346ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 11356ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 11366ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 11408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1146d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 114746d50c98SJan Beulich range 1 9 1148d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 11538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11541184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1155692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1157c1329375STejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM 11583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 117599809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1176506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1179b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1183b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1184b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1185b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1186b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1187b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 11914272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1197b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 12088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 12159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 12168f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12179f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 12189f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 12199f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 12209f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 12219f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 12229f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 12239f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 12249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 12259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12269f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 12279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 12289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 12299f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 12309f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 12319f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 12329f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 12339f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 12349f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 12359f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1236c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1237c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1238c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1239c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 12408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1241c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1242c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1243c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1244fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1245fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1246fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 12478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1248fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1249fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1250fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1251fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1252fc381519SIngo Molnar 1253fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1254fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1255fc381519SIngo Molnar 1256fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1257fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1258fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1259fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1260fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1261fc381519SIngo Molnar 1262fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1263fc381519SIngo Molnar 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1270506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1318506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13227225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 132495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 13252ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 132695ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 132795ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 13288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1329aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1330aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 133195ffa243SYinghai Lu 1332aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1333692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1334aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 133595ffa243SYinghai Lu 13362ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 133795ffa243SYinghai Lu 133895ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1339f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1340f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1341f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 134295ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1344f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 134595ffa243SYinghai Lu 134612031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 134712031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 134812031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 134912031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 135012031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 13518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 135212031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1353aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13552e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13562a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13572e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13582a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13602e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1361042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13622e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13632e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13642e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13652e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1366042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13672e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13682e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13692e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13719ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13725b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13748b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13778b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13788b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13798b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13808b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13818b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13828b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 13878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13949c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1400113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1401113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1402113c5413SIngo Molnar 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1405113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 14068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1408113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1409113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1417113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1418113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 14248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 143904b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 14418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14523ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14533ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14543ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1455fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 14568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 145789081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 145889081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14593ab83521SHuang Ying 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1462ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 14638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1481ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1482ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1483ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1484ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1485ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1486ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1487ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1488ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1489ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 150226717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 150326717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 15048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1518845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1519845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1520845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1521845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1522845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1523506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1526ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1527ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin range 0x2000 0x1000000 15288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 15487c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 15494b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15517c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15527c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15537c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15547c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15557c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1560af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 15618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1562af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1570516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1571516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1572516cbf37STim Bird default n 15738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1574516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1575516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1576516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1577516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1578516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1579516cbf37STim Bird 1580516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1581516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1582516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1583516cbf37STim Bird 1584516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1585516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1586516cbf37STim Bird 1587516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1588516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1589516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1590516cbf37STim Bird default "" 15918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1592516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1593516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1594516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1595516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1596516cbf37STim Bird 1597516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1598516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1599516cbf37STim Bird 1600516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1601516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1602516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1603516cbf37STim Bird 1604516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1605516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1606516cbf37STim Bird default n 1607516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 16088f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1609516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1610516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1611516cbf37STim Bird 1612516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1613516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1614516cbf37STim Bird 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 162135551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 162235551053SGary Hade def_bool y 162335551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 162435551053SGary Hade 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1629da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 16323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1639a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1640a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1641a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1642a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1643a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1646efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 166253471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 17078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 17318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 17428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 17558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 176927471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 177027471fdbSAndy Henroid 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17771ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17781c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 17808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1788efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1808e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1810e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1812e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18143ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 18153ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 18163ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 18173ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 18182bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 18192bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 18202bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 18243c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1825efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 18293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1830efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 18333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18363ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 18372bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 18382bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 18393ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 18413c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18504cf2e75dSDavid Woodhouse depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18580cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1859f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18600cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18610cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18620cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18630cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18640cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18650cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18660cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18670cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18680cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18899fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18909fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18919fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18939fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18949fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18959fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18969fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 19033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 19098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 193572ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 19368f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 19468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 19588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 19698f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19753ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19763ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19773ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19793ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19803ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19813ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1982bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1983bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1986bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2002a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 20038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 2005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 20106b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 20118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 20153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 20233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2024b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2029e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2030e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2031e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2032e5beae16SKeith Packard 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2039e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2040e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2041e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2042e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2043e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2044e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2045e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2047edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2048edf88417SAvi Kivity 2049e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2050