1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 4ffee0de4SDavid Woodhouse default ARCH != "i386" 58f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 1282491451SRussell King select CLKSRC_I8253 13af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 163120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 173120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 184692d77fSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 191032c0baSSam Ravnborg 201032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 218d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 223c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23446f24d1SStephen Boyd select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 24e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 25a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 26cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 27cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 28ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2942d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 308761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 31cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 3228b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 333f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 3472d7c3b3SYinghai Lu select HAVE_MEMBLOCK 350608f70cSTejun Heo select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP 36c378ddd5STejun Heo select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK 371f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 38da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 397c095e46SFUJITA Tomonori select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 400a2b9a6eSMarek Szyprowski select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB 419edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 42c0f7ac3aSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_OPTPROBES 43e7dbfe34SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 44e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 45d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 46cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 47677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 4806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 49606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 5048d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 5171e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5260a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5366700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 547ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 55e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 5649793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 5799bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 58323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 5958340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 608d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 61f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 622118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 642e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 652e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 6630314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 6713510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 680067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 690102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 7099e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 71c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 72c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 73c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 74b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 7599e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 76eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 77eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 782565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 790a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 807c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 81e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8246eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 833cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP 843bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS 857463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 86141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 87c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 883bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 893bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 90517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 91d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 92c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 93351f8f8eSAmerigo Wang select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS if SMP 94e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9515626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 960a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 97df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 984673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 99e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 1007eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 101c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 102c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1038b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 104bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 105bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 106bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 107bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA if X86_64 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 109bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 110bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1114ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1125723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11391d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 114fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1154febd95aSStephen Rothwell select VIRT_TO_BUS 116786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 117786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1181d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 11983a57a4dSDavid Woodhouse select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 12015ce1f71SAl Viro select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1215b3eb3adSAl Viro select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32 1225b3eb3adSAl Viro select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION 1233195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 1247d8330a5SBalbir Singh 125ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1263120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1273120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 128ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 12951b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 13051b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 13151b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 13251b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 13351b26adaSLinus Torvalds 13473531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 135b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 13673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 13773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 138b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1403c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1428d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 145aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 146aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 147aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1543bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1553120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1563120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1573bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 15818e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1594a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 16018e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1623120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1633120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 168b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 169b93a531eSJan Beulich 170b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 171b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1773120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1783120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1801032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1813120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1821032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1831032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1841032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1851032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1869a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1879a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1891b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1901b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1911b27d05bSPekka Enberg 192fad12ac8SThomas Renningerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE 193fad12ac8SThomas Renninger def_bool y 194fad12ac8SThomas Renninger 195dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 19689c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 197b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 19808fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 19908fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 20008fc4580STejun Heo 20108fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 20211124411STejun Heo def_bool y 20311124411STejun Heo 204801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 205801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 206801e4062SJohannes Berg 207f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 208f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 209f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 2108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2178d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 218765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 219765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 220765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2216a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2226a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2236a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 22469575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 22569575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 2266ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 22769575d38SShane Wang 2286b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2296b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2306b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2316b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2326b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2336b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2346b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2356b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2368d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2376fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 238ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2398d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 240ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 241ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 24260a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 243ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 244d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 245d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 246d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 247d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 248d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 249d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE 250d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov def_bool y 251d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 252d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov 2532b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2542b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2552b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 256506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 257dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 259506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2615ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2625ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2635ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2645ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2655ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2665ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2675ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2685ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2695ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2705ee71535SRandy Dunlap 271506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 293395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 29906cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 30006cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 301d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 30206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 30306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 30406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 30506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 30606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 30706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 30806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 30906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3106695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3116e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3127a527688SJan Beulich default y 3135ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3156695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3166695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3176695c85bSYinghai Lu 31826f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 31926f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 32026f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32226f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 324ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig GOLDFISH 325ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima def_bool y 326ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_GOLDFISH 327ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 3288425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 329c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 330c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 331c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 33306ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 33406ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 33506ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 33606ac8346SIngo Molnar 3378425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3388425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 339*cb7b8023SBen Hutchings Goldfish (Android emulator) 3408425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3418425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3428425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3438425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 34483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3468425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3473f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 34806ac8346SIngo Molnar 34906ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 35006ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3518425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 35206ac8346SIngo Molnar 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3548425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3558425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3568425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3588425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3608425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 36444b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3658425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3668425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3678425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3688425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3698425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3708425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 371c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 372c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 37344b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 37444b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 37544b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 37644b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 37744b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 37844b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 37944b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 380f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 38144b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 38244b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 38344b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 38444b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 38503b48632SNick Piggin 3866a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 387c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 3886276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 3896a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3906a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 391c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 392ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 3938f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3946a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3956a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3966a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3976a48565eSIngo Molnar 398c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 399c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 400c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 401c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 40254c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 4039d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 404c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 405c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 406c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 407c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 408c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 409c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 411ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 412ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 413ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima depends on X86_32 414*cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 415ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima ---help--- 416ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 417ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 418ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 419ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 420c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 421c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 422c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 423c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 424c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 425c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 42637bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 427da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 428da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 429b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 430c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 431c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 432c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 433c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 434c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 435dd137525SAlan Coxconfig X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 43643605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 43743605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 43843605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 43943605ef1SAlan Cox ---help--- 44043605ef1SAlan Cox Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID platform 44143605ef1SAlan Cox systems which do not have the PCI legacy interfaces (Moorestown, 44243605ef1SAlan Cox Medfield). If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 44343605ef1SAlan Cox 444dd137525SAlan Coxif X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 44543605ef1SAlan Cox 4464e2b1c4fSAlan Coxconfig X86_INTEL_MID 4474e2b1c4fSAlan Cox bool 4484e2b1c4fSAlan Cox 4491ea7c673SAlan Coxconfig X86_MDFLD 4501ea7c673SAlan Cox bool "Medfield MID platform" 4511ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4521ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4531ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4547c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select X86_INTEL_MID 4557c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4567c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4571ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4581ea7c673SAlan Cox select I2C 4591ea7c673SAlan Cox select SPI 4601ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 4611ea7c673SAlan Cox select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 46215a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4631ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4641ea7c673SAlan Cox Medfield is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 4651ea7c673SAlan Cox Internet Device(MID) platform. 4661ea7c673SAlan Cox Unlike standard x86 PCs, Medfield does not have many legacy devices 4671ea7c673SAlan Cox nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Medfield does 4681ea7c673SAlan Cox not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 4691ea7c673SAlan Cox 47043605ef1SAlan Coxendif 47143605ef1SAlan Cox 4723d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 4733d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 4743d48aab1SMika Westerberg depends on ACPI 4753d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 4763d48aab1SMika Westerberg ---help--- 4773d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 4783d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 4793d48aab1SMika Westerberg things like clock tree (common clock framework) which are needed 4803d48aab1SMika Westerberg by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 4813d48aab1SMika Westerberg 482c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 483c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 485c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 486c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 487c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 488c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 489c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 490c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 491c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 492c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 493e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4949c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4959c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 496c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 49883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, 49983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11, default subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic 50083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini binary kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it 50183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini one by one and will fallback to default. 502d49c4288SYinghai Lu 503c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 504d49c4288SYinghai Lu 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 507e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 508a92d152eSPan, Jacob jun depends on PCI 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 5109c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 5118f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 512d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 513d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 514d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 515d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 516d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 518d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 5196fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 520d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 521d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 522d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 523d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on !X86_NUMAQ 524d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 525d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 526d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 527d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 5281b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 5291b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 530c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 531c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 532c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 5331b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 5341b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 5351b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5361b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 5371b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5381b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 5391b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 5401b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 54183125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 54283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 54383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 54483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 54583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 54683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 54783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 54883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 54983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 55083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 55183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 55283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 55383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 55483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 55583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 55683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 5579c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 5589c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 559e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5619c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 5629c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 5631f972768SIngo Molnar 5649c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 565c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 56626f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 5678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5689c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5699c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 5709c398017SIngo Molnar 57182148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 57282148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 57382148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 57482148d1dSShérab ---help--- 57582148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 57682148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 57782148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 57882148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 57982148d1dSShérab 58082148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 58182148d1dSShérab 58282148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 58382148d1dSShérab 584ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 587a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5966276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 5976276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 5988f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5996276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 6006276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 6016276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6036276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 6046276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 605506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 6066276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 608e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 609e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 6108f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 611e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 612e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 613e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 614e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 615e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 6166276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 6176276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 6186276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 6196276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6206276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 6216276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 6226276a074SBorislav Petkov 623b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 624b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 6256ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 626b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 627b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 628b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 629b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 630b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 631b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on 632b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge native kernels, with various workloads. 633b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 634b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 635b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6366276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 6376276a074SBorislav Petkov 6386276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 6396276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 6406276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6416276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6426276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 6436276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6446276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 6456276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 6466276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 6476276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 6486276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6496276a074SBorislav Petkov 6506276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 6516276a074SBorislav Petkov 6526276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 6536276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 6546276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 6556276a074SBorislav Petkov default n 6566276a074SBorislav Petkov ---help--- 6576276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 6586276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 6596276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 6606276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 6616276a074SBorislav Petkov 6626276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 6636276a074SBorislav Petkov 6647af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6657af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6667af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 6676276a074SBorislav Petkovendif #HYPERVISOR_GUEST 66897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 66908677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 670774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 67108677214SYinghai Lu 67203273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 67303273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 675c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 67603273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 67703273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 67803273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 67903273184SYinghai Lu ... 68003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 681aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 6843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 685e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 6883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 689f9b15df4SAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_SUMMIT 690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 693506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 700506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 701506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 702506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 704e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 705506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 706506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 707506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 708506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 709506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 712506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 7133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7149d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 716bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 717933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 718933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 71906c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 720a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 721bb24c471SJacob Pan help 722bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 723bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 724bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 725bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 726bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 727bb24c471SJacob Pan 7286a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 7307ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 7317ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 7326a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 7338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7347ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 7357ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 7367ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 7377ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 7387ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 7406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "GART IOMMU support" if EXPERT 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 74323ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 7448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 7586ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && PCI 7598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7753c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7778f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 786a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 7894454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 7904454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 7914454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 7924454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 794a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 7953120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 7963120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 797d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7981184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 799ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 8006ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 80136f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 8028f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 803ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 8041184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 80736f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 8082a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 80936f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 81078637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 811d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 81278637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 81378637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 8148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 816d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 824b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8258f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 8323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 834b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 844e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 8458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 846506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 847506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 850506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 853506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 859506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 860506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 861506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 862506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 863506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 864506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 865506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 866506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 869e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8731444e0c9SHenrik Kretzschmar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 8763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 87941b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 88041b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 88141b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 88341b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 88441b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 88541b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 88641b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 88741b9eb26SStefan Assmann 88841b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 88941b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 89041b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 89141b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 89241b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 89341b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 89441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 89541b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 89641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 89741b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 89841b9eb26SStefan Assmann 89941b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 90041b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 90141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 903bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 904e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 906bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 907bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 909bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 9104efc0670SAndi Kleen 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 9123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9133c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 914c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 9203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 922c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 9238f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9274efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 9286fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 929c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 9304efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 9314efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 9324efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 9334efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 9344efc0670SAndi Kleen 935b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 936b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 9376fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 938b2762686SAndi Kleen 939ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 940c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 941ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 942ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 943ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 944ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 945ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 946ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9474efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9484efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9495bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9504efc0670SAndi Kleen 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9526a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 979949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9999ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 10009ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 1005506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 10095e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 1016e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1019e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 102180cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 1022e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 1023e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 1024e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 1025e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 1026506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10278d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 10288d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1030e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1031e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10338d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1034e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 10358d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 10368d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 10378d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10398d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 10408d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10418d86f390SPeter Oruba 10428d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 10438d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 10448d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 10458d86f390SPeter Oruba 104680cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1047e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 104880cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 104980cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10508f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 105180cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 105280cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 105380cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1058da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB 1059da76f64eSFenghua Yu def_bool y 1060da76f64eSFenghua Yu depends on MICROCODE_INTEL 1061da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1062da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1063da76f64eSFenghua Yu bool "Early load microcode" 1064da76f64eSFenghua Yu depends on MICROCODE_INTEL && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1065da76f64eSFenghua Yu default y 1066da76f64eSFenghua Yu help 1067da76f64eSFenghua Yu This option provides functionality to read additional microcode data 1068da76f64eSFenghua Yu at the beginning of initrd image. The data tells kernel to load 1069da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode to CPU's as early as possible. No functional change if no 1070da76f64eSFenghua Yu microcode data is glued to the initrd, therefore it's safe to say Y. 1071da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1072da76f64eSFenghua Yuconfig MICROCODE_EARLY 1073da76f64eSFenghua Yu def_bool y 1074da76f64eSFenghua Yu depends on MICROCODE_INTEL_EARLY 1075da76f64eSFenghua Yu 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 10966fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 11398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1145eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 11546a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1160506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1166506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1167506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1168506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1169506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1170506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1171506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1172506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1173506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1174506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1176506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1177506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1178506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1179506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1185506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1187506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1191506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1196506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 12019ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 12038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1209600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 12103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1212600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 121366f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 12143120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12153120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 121666f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 12179e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 12186a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 12199e899816SNick Piggin default y 12209e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 12218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12229e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 12239e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 12249e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 12259e899816SNick Piggin 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1228fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 12306ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI)) 12310699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 12328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1234fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1239c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1240fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1241fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1242fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1243fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1244fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1245fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1246fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1251eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12523c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12545da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12558f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1256eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1257eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1258eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1259eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1260eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12633c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12643c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12706ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12716ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12726ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12736ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12746ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12756ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12766ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12776ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12786ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1279506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 12811b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 12828f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1287506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1288d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 128951591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 129051591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1292506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12961184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1297692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 13003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 13043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 13093b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1313b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1317b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1318b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 13216ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1324506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13253b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 13263b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13273b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 13283b16651fSTejun Heo 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1331b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 13343120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 13353120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13373b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 13383b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13393b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 13403b16651fSTejun Heo 1341a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1342a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1343a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1344a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1345a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1348506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13506fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13579f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13589f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13598f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13609f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13619f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13629f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13639f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13649f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13659f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13669f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13679f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13689f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13699f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13709f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13719f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13729f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13739f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13749f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13759f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13769f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13779f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13789f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1379c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1380c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1381c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1382c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13838f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1384c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1385c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1386c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13879ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1388d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1389d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1390d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 13918f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1392d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1393fc381519SIngo Molnar 1394d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1395d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1396fc381519SIngo Molnar 1397d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1398d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1399d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1400d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1401fc381519SIngo Molnar 1402d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1403d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1404d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1405d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1406d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1407d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1408d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1409d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1410d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1411d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1412d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1413d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1414d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1415fc381519SIngo Molnar 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 14436fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14446a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14757225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 147795ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14782ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 147995ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 148095ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14818f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1482aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1483aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 148495ffa243SYinghai Lu 1485aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1486692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1487aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 148895ffa243SYinghai Lu 14892ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 149095ffa243SYinghai Lu 149195ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1492f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1493f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1494f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 149595ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14968f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1497f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 149895ffa243SYinghai Lu 149912031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 150012031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 150112031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 150212031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 150312031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 15048f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 150512031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1506aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 150712031a62SYinghai Lu 15082e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 15096fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 15106a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 15112a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 15128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 15132e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1514042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 15152e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 15162e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 15172e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 15182e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1519042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 15202e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 15212e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 15222e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 152346cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 152446cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 152546cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 152646cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1527628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1528628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1529628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1530628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1531628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1532628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1533628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1534628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1535628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 153651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 153751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 153851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 153951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 154051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 154151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 154251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 154351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 154451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 154551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 154651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15489ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15495b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1550f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15528b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15558b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15568b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15578b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15588b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15598b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15608b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1562291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1563291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1564291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1565291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1566291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1567291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1568291f3632SMatt Fleming 15690c759662SMatt Fleming See Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt for more information. 15700c759662SMatt Fleming 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 15723c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15733c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 15748f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 15819c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1582506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1584506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 15882a8ac745SJean Delvare bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection" 15898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1591113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1592113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1600113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1601113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1602506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1603506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1604506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1605506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 16078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 162204b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 16248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1626506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1632506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 16353ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 16366ea30386SKees Cook bool "kexec jump" 1637fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 16388f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 163989081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 164089081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 16413ab83521SHuang Ying 1642506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 16436a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1644ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 16458f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1663ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1664ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1665ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1666ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1667ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1668ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1669ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1670ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1671ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1683506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 168426717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 168526717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 16868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1700845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1701845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1702845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1703845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1704845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1705506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 17066fc108a0SJan Beulich hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1707ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1708ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin range 0x2000 0x1000000 17098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1710506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1711506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1712506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1713506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1728506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 17297c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 17304b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 17327c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 17337c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 17347c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 17357c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 17367c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 173880aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 173980aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 174080aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 17412c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 174280aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 174380aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 174480aa1dffSFenghua Yu 174580aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 174680aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 174780aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 174880aa1dffSFenghua Yu 174980aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 175080aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 175180aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 175280aa1dffSFenghua Yu 175380aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 175480aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 175580aa1dffSFenghua Yu 175680aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 175780aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 175880aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 175980aa1dffSFenghua Yu 176080aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 176180aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 176280aa1dffSFenghua Yu 176380aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 176480aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 176580aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 176680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1767a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1768a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1769a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 17702c922cd0SKees Cook depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1771a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1772a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1773a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1774a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1775a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1776a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1777a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1778a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1779a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1780a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1781a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1782506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 17833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 17843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1785af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 17868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1787af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1788e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1795516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1796516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 17978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1798516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1799516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1800516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1801516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1802516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1803516cbf37STim Bird 1804516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1805516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1806516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1807516cbf37STim Bird 1808516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1809516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1810516cbf37STim Bird 1811516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1812516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1813516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1814516cbf37STim Bird default "" 18158f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1816516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1817516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1818516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1819516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1820516cbf37STim Bird 1821516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1822516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1823516cbf37STim Bird 1824516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1825516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1826516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1827516cbf37STim Bird 1828516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1829516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1830516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 18318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1832516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1833516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1834516cbf37STim Bird 1835516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1836516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1837516cbf37STim Bird 1838506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1840506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1841506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 184435551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 184535551053SGary Hade def_bool y 184635551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 184735551053SGary Hade 1848e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1849645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1850e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1851e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 1852da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1862efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1863efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1864a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 18656fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1866282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1867a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1870efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 18862dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 18872dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 19318f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1954dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 19678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 19808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1990bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 199427471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 199527471fdbSAndy Henroid 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 20021ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 20031c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 2004e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 20058f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 2010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2013efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2016e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2023e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2024e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2025e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2026e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2027e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2028e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2029e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2030e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2032e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20393ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 204076fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20413ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20423ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20432bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20442bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20452bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2046e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2047e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2048e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2050efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2051e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2053e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20550aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2056e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20595f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2060e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20613ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 20622bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 20632bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 20643ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2065b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2066b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2067b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2068b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2069b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 20713c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20783f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 20796a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 20806ea30386SKees Cook depends on PCI 20813f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 20823f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 20833f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 20843f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 20853f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 208664a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 208764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 208864a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 208964a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 209064a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2091e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2092e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2093e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2094e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20951c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2096e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 20971c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 20981c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 20991c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 21001c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 21011c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2102e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2103e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2105e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2106e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 21078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2108e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2109e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2110e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2111e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2112e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2113e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2114e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2115e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2116e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2117e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2118e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2119e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2120e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2121e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2122e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2123e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2124e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2125e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2126e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2127e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2128e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2129e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2130e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2131e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2132e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2133e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 21348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2135e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2136e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2137e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2138e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2139e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2140e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2141e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2142e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2143e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2144592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2145e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21468f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2147e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2148e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2149e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2150e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2151e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2152e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21533ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21543ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 215554008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21563c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2157dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 215845bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2159b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 21608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 21613ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 21623ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 21633ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2164a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2165a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 216697c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2167a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2168bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 216997c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2170bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2171cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2172cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2173cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2174cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2175cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2176cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2177cfee9597SDaniel Drake 21787feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 21797feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2180d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2181ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2182d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 21837feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 21847feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 21857feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 21867feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 21877bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 21887feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 21897bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 21902cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2191e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2192e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 21937feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2194a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2195a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2196d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2197d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2198a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2199a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2200a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2201a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2202a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2203e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2204d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2205d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2206d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2207d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2208d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2209d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2210d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2211d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2212d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2213d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2214d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2215d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2216d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2217d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2218da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2219da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2220da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2221da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2222da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2223da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 22243197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 22253197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 22263197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 22273197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 22283197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 22293197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 22303197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 22317d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 22327d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 22337d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 22347d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 22357d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 22367d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 22377d029125SVivien Didelot ---help--- 22387d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 22397d029125SVivien Didelot 2240e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2241e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 224223ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2243e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 22440e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2245e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2246e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2247e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2248e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2249e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2250388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2251388b78adSAlexandre Bounine bool "RapidIO support" 2252388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2253388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2254388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2255388b78adSAlexandre Bounine If you say Y here, the kernel will include drivers and 2256388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2257388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2258388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2259388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2260e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2261e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2262e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2263e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2264e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2265e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2266e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2267e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2268e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2269e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2270a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2271af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 22728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 22735fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 22745fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 22755fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2276e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2277e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2278e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 22796b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 22808f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2281e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2282e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 22830bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 22846ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 22856ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION 22865fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 22875fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 22885fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 22895fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 22905fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 22915fd92e65SH. J. Lu 22925fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 22935fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 22945fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 22955fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2296e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 22973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 22980bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 229948b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2300e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 23013120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2302e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 23033120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2304e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2305e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 23063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 23073120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2308e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2309ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 23103120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 23113120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 23123120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2313ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2314e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2315e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2316e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2317e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2318e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2319e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2320e5beae16SKeith Packard 23213cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP 23223cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu bool 23233cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu select STOP_MACHINE if SMP 23243cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu 23254692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 23264692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 232783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 23284692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2329f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2330f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 233183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2332f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 2333e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2334e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2335e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2336e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2337e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2338e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2339e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2340e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2341e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2342e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2343e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2344e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2345e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2346e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2347edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2348edf88417SAvi Kivity 2349e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2350