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 37e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 3849793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 3999bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 40323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4158340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 428d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 437d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4473531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 45b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 4673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 4773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 48b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 71aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 72aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 73aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 741f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 751f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 761f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 771f84260cSChristoph Lameter 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 96b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 97b93a531eSJan Beulich 98b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 99b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 104a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1059ba16087SJan Beulich bool 106a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1101032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1111032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1121032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1131032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg 116a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 117a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 118a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1191032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1201032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1211032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1269a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1279a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 12989cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1321b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1331b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1341b27d05bSPekka Enberg 135dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 13689c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 137b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 1389f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1399f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1409f0e8d04SMike Travis 141801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 142801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 143aced3ceeSIngo Molnar depends on !SMP 144801e4062SJohannes Berg 145f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 146f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 147f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 159765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 160765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 161765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1766cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1776cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1786cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1796cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1806b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1816b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1826b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1836b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1846b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1856b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1866b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1876b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 190ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 1918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 1948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1953e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 1968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 200506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 201dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 203506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 205506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 207506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 22903502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2350b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2360b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 23717483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 239973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 240973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 241973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2420b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 243973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 244973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 245973656feSIngo Molnar 246973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2470b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 24848a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 24948a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 250b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 25148a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 2528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 25348a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 25448a1b10aSYinghai Lu 25548a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 25648a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2576695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2587a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2597a527688SJan Beulich default y 2605ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2626695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2636695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2646695c85bSYinghai Lu 26526f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 26626f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 26726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 2688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 26926f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 27026f7ef14SYinghai Lu 271*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 272*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 273*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 2748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 27506ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 27606ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 27706ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 27806ac8346SIngo Molnar 27906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you enable this option then you'll be able to select a number 280*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai of non-PC x86 platforms. 28106ac8346SIngo Molnar 28206ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 28306ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 28406ac8346SIngo Molnar 285*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 286*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 28703b48632SNick Piggin 2886a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 289*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 2906a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 2916a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 292*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 2938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2946a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 2956a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 2966a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 2976a48565eSIngo Molnar 298*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 299*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 300*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 301*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 302*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 303*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 304*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 305*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 306*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 307*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 308*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3099e111f3eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_ELAN 3109e111f3eSIngo Molnar bool "AMD Elan" 3119e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 312*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3149e111f3eSIngo Molnar Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 3159e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3169e111f3eSIngo Molnar Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 3179e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3189e111f3eSIngo Molnar If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 3199e111f3eSIngo Molnar 320*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 321*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 322*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 323*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 324*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 325*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 326*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 327*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 328*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 329*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 330*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 331e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3329c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3339c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 334*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3369c398017SIngo Molnar This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 3379c398017SIngo Molnar subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 3389c398017SIngo Molnar if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 3399c398017SIngo Molnar fallback to default. 3409c398017SIngo Molnar 341*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 342*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3439c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NUMAQ 3449c398017SIngo Molnar bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 345e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3469c398017SIngo Molnar select NUMA 3479c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 3488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3499c398017SIngo Molnar This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3509c398017SIngo Molnar NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 3519c398017SIngo Molnar bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 3529c398017SIngo Molnar of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 3539c398017SIngo Molnar firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 3549c398017SIngo Molnar 355*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_VISWS 356*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 357*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 358*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 359*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 360*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 361*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 362*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 363*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 364*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 365*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 366*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 367*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 3689c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 3699c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 370e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3718f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3729c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 3739c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 3749c398017SIngo Molnar 3759c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 376*c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 37726f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 3788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3799c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3809c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 3819c398017SIngo Molnar 3823769e7b4SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VOYAGER 3833769e7b4SIngo Molnar bool "Voyager (NCR)" 3843769e7b4SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && !PCI && BROKEN 385e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3873769e7b4SIngo Molnar Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 3883769e7b4SIngo Molnar to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 3893769e7b4SIngo Molnar 3903769e7b4SIngo Molnar *** WARNING *** 3913769e7b4SIngo Molnar 3923769e7b4SIngo Molnar If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 3933769e7b4SIngo Molnar say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 3949c398017SIngo Molnar 395ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 3963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 398a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 3998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 407506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 4098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 415506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 417506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 419506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 42242d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 4238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 429790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 430790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 431790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 432f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 434790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 435790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 436790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 437790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 438790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 439790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4400cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4410cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4420cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 4440cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4450cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4460cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 447506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 449e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 450e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 4518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 452e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 453e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 454e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 455e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 456e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4577af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4587af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4597af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4607af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 461506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 46397349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 46497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 46597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 4668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 46797349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 46897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 46997349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 47003273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 47103273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 4728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 473c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 47403273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 47503273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 47603273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 47703273184SYinghai Lu ... 47803273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 479aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 481506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 4823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 483e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 485506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 4863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 487e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 489506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 4923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 4948f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 502e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 510506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5113c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5129d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5167ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5177ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5187ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5207ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5217ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5227ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5237ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5247ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 525506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 5318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 5468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 5648f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5712b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 5722b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 57307c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 574a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 57524d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 5768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 57718d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 57818d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 57918d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 58018d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 58118d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 58218d22200SJoerg Roedel 58318d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 58418d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 58518d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 5862b188723SJoerg Roedel 5872e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 5882e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 5892e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 5902e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 5918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5922e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 5932e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 5942e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 5952e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 5962e117604SJoerg Roedel 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 599a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 6008f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 607a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 60818b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 609d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6101aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6111aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6121aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6131184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6141184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 61536f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 61636f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6171184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6191184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6201184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 622506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 62336f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 62436f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 62578637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 626d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 62778637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 62878637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 6298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 631d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 637506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 639b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 649b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 6508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 659e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 6608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 6738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 6833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 684e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 6873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 688e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 6913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 69441b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 69541b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 69641b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 69741b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 6988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 69941b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 70041b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 70141b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 70241b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 70341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 70441b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 70541b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 70641b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 70741b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 70841b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 70941b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 71041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 71141b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 71241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 71341b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 71441b9eb26SStefan Assmann 71541b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 71641b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 71741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7353c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 7468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 7538f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 765efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 7668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 7748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8179ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8189ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8275e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8348d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 83880cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 83980cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 84080cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 84180cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 84280cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 84380cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8458d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8468d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8518d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 85218dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8538d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8548d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8558d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 8578d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 8588d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 8598d86f390SPeter Oruba 8608d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 8618d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 8628d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 8638d86f390SPeter Oruba 86480cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 86518dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 86680cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 86780cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 86980cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 87080cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 87180cc9f10SPeter Oruba 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 8733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 8788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 8878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 9398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 9478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 9983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10029ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 10048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1009506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1010600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1011600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1012600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10139e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10149e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10159e899816SNick Piggin default y 10169e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10189e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10199e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10209e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10219e899816SNick Piggin 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1023506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1024fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 10260699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 10270699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 10288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1030fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1035c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1036fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1037fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1038fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1039fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1040fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1041fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1042fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 10518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 10638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10666ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 10676ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 10686ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 10696ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 10706ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 10716ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 10726ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 10736ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10746ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 10788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1084d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1085efac4189SThomas Gleixner range 1 9 if X86_64 1086d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 10918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10921184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 10931184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 10963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 111399809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1117b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1121b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1122b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1123b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1124b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1125b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 11294272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1135b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 11468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11529f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11539f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11548f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11559f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11569f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 11579f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 11589f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 11599f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 11609f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 11619f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 11629f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 11639f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11649f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 11659f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 11669f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 11679f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 11689f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11699f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 11709f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 11719f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 11729f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 11739f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1174c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1175c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1176c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1177c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 11788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1179c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1180c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1181c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1182fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1183fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1184fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 11858f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1186fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1187fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1188fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1189fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1190fc381519SIngo Molnar 1191fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1192fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1193fc381519SIngo Molnar 1194fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1195fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1196fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1197fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1198fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1199fc381519SIngo Molnar 1200fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1201fc381519SIngo Molnar 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12607225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 126295ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 12632ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 126495ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 126595ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 12668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1267aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1268aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 126995ffa243SYinghai Lu 1270aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1271aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1272aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 127395ffa243SYinghai Lu 12742ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 127595ffa243SYinghai Lu 127695ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1277f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1278f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1279f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 128095ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 12818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1282f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 128395ffa243SYinghai Lu 128412031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 128512031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 128612031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 128712031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 128812031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 12898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 129012031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1291aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12932e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 12942a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 12952e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 12962a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 12978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12982e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1299042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13002e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13012e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13022e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13032e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1304042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13052e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13062e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13072e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13099ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13105b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13128b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13158b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13168b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13178b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13188b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13198b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13208b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13233c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13243c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 13258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1326506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1327506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1328506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13329c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1338113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1339113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1340113c5413SIngo Molnar 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 134372370f2aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 1344113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 13458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1347113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1348113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1356113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1357113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 13638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 137804b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 13808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13913ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 13923ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13933ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 139489081d17SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 13958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 139689081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 139789081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 13983ab83521SHuang Ying 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 14048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 14458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 14658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 14857c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 14864b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 14887c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 14897c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 14907c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 14917c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 14927c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 14953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 14963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1497af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 14988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1499af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1507516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1508516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1509516cbf37STim Bird default n 15108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1511516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1512516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1513516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1514516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1515516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1516516cbf37STim Bird 1517516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1518516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1519516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1520516cbf37STim Bird 1521516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1522516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1523516cbf37STim Bird 1524516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1525516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1526516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1527516cbf37STim Bird default "" 15288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1529516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1530516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1531516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1532516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1533516cbf37STim Bird 1534516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1535516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1536516cbf37STim Bird 1537516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1538516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1539516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1540516cbf37STim Bird 1541516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1542516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1543516cbf37STim Bird default n 1544516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 15458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1546516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1547516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1548516cbf37STim Bird 1549516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1550516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1551516cbf37STim Bird 1552506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 155835551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 155935551053SGary Hade def_bool y 156035551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 156135551053SGary Hade 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1566da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1567e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1568e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 15693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1570e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1571e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1572e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1573e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1574e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1575e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1576a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1577a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1578a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1579a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1580a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1582e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1583efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1589e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1590e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1591e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1593e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1594e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1595e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1596e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 159953471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1616e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1617e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1618e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 16448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 16688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 16798f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 16928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 170627471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 170727471fdbSAndy Henroid 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17141ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17151c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 17178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1725efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17513ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17523ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17533ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17543ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17552bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17562bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17572bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 17613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1762efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 17663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1767efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 17703c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17733ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 17742bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 17752bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 17763ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 17783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 17888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17950cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 17960cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin def_bool n 17970cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 17980cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 17990cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18000cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18010cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18020cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18030cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18040cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18050cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1812e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1815e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1816e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18183c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 18208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18269fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18279fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18289fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 18309fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18319fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18329fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18339fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 18468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 187272ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 18738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 18838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 18958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 19068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19123ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19133ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19143ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 19163ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19173ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19183ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1919bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1920bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1923bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1939a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 19408f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19476b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 19488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 19603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1961b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1966e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 1967e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 1968e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 1969e5beae16SKeith Packard 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1984edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 1985edf88417SAvi Kivity 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 1987