1daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 36840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 46840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 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 23e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING 26cbee9f88SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE 27ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2842d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 298761f1abSRalf Baechle select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 30cc2067a5SPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 31e360adbeSPeter Zijlstra select HAVE_IRQ_WORK 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 43e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 44d57c5d51SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 45cf4db259SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 47606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 4848d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 4971e308a2SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST 5060a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 5166700001SJosh Stone select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 527ac57a89SCatalin Marinas select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 53e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 5449793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 5599bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 56323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 5758340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 588d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 59f850c30cSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 602118d0c5SJoerg Roedel select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 612e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 632e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 6430314804SLasse Collin select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 6513510997SAlbin Tonnerre select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 660067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 670102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 6899e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select PERF_EVENTS 69c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 70c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 71c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 72b69ec42bSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 7399e8c5a3SFrederic Weisbecker select ANON_INODES 74eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB 75eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 762565409fSHeiko Carstens select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 770a4af3b0SPekka Enberg select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK 787c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 79e39f5602SDavid Daney select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE 8046eb3b64SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 813cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP 823bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS 837463449bSCatalin Marinas select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE 84141d55e6SYinghai Lu select SPARSE_IRQ 85c49aa5bdSJan Beulich select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT 863bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 873bb9808eSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 88517e4981SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 89d1748302SMartin Schwidefsky select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 90c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 91351f8f8eSAmerigo Wang select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS if SMP 92e47b65b0SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64 9315626062SGerald Schaefer select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 940a779c57SThomas Gleixner select CLKEVT_I8253 95df013ffbSHuang Ying select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 964673ca8eSMichael S. Tsirkin select GENERIC_IOMAP 97e419b4ccSLinus Torvalds select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS 987eb43a6dSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 99c1d7e01dSWill Deacon select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 100c6cfbeb4SWill Drewry select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 1018b5ad472SDavid Daney select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT 102bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 103bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 104bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 105bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA if X86_64 106bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 107bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 108bdebaf80SThomas Gleixner select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 1094ae73f2dSLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER 1105723aa99SLinus Torvalds select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER 11191d1aa43SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 112fdf9c356SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 113786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32 114786d35d4SDavid Howells select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64 1151d4b4b29SAl Viro select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32 1166bf9adfcSAl Viro select GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK 1177d8330a5SBalbir Singh 118ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1193120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1203120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 121ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 12251b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 12351b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 12451b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 12551b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 12651b26adaSLinus Torvalds 12773531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 128b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 12973531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 13073531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 131b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 1328d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1348d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1363c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1378d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 138aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 139aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 140aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 1418d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 1423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1448d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 1458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1473bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 1483120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1493120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || INTEL_IOMMU || DMA_API_DEBUG 1503bc4e459SFUJITA Tomonori 15118e98307SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 1524a14d84eSAndrew Morton def_bool y 15318e98307SFUJITA Tomonori 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 1553120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1563120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 1593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 161b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 162b93a531eSJan Beulich 163b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 164b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 169a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1709ba16087SJan Beulich bool 171a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1733120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1743120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1761032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1773120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 1781032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1791032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1801032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1811032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1829a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1839a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 18589cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 18689cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 18789cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1881b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1891b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1901b27d05bSPekka Enberg 191fad12ac8SThomas Renningerconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE 192fad12ac8SThomas Renninger def_bool y 193fad12ac8SThomas Renninger 194dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 19589c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 196b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 19708fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 19808fc4580STejun Heo def_bool y 19908fc4580STejun Heo 20008fc4580STejun Heoconfig NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 20111124411STejun Heo def_bool y 20211124411STejun Heo 203801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 204801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 205801e4062SJohannes Berg 206f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 207f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 208f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 2098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 2108d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 2148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 2158d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 2168d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 217765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 218765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 219765c68bdSIngo Molnar 2206a11f75bSAkinobu Mitaconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2216a11f75bSAkinobu Mita def_bool y 2226a11f75bSAkinobu Mita 22369575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 22469575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 225d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 22669575d38SShane Wang 2276b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 2286b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2296b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 2306b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2316b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 2326b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 2336b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 2346b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 2358d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 2366fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 237ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 2388d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 239ccbeed3aSTejun Heoconfig X86_32_LAZY_GS 240ccbeed3aSTejun Heo def_bool y 24160a5317fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR 242ccbeed3aSTejun Heo 243d61931d8SBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS 244d61931d8SBorislav Petkov string 245d61931d8SBorislav Petkov default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 246d61931d8SBorislav 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 247d61931d8SBorislav Petkov 248d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkovconfig ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE 249d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov def_bool y 250d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 251d7c53c9eSBorislav Petkov 2522b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 2532b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 2542b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 255506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 256dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 258506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2605ee71535SRandy Dunlapconfig ZONE_DMA 2615ee71535SRandy Dunlap bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT 2625ee71535SRandy Dunlap default y 2635ee71535SRandy Dunlap help 2645ee71535SRandy Dunlap DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit 2655ee71535SRandy Dunlap addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space. 2665ee71535SRandy Dunlap Disable if no such devices will be used. 2675ee71535SRandy Dunlap 2685ee71535SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 2695ee71535SRandy Dunlap 270506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 272506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 274506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 276506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 278506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 279506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 280506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 282506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 286506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 287506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 292395cf969SPaul Bolle See also <file:Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 29806cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 29906cd9a7dSYinghai Lu bool "Support x2apic" 300d3f13810SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 30106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu ---help--- 30206cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 30306cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 30406cd9a7dSYinghai Lu This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 30506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 30606cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 30706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 30806cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 3096695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 3106e87f9b7SBin Gao bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI 3117a527688SJan Beulich default y 3125ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 3138f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3146695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 3156695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 3166695c85bSYinghai Lu 31726f7ef14SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 31826f7ef14SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 31926f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 3208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32126f7ef14SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3238425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_32 324c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 325c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 326c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3278f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 32806ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 32906ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 33006ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 33106ac8346SIngo Molnar 3328425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3338425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms: 3348425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai AMD Elan 3358425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3368425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 3378425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 33883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 3398425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Summit/EXA (IBM x440) 3408425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai Unisys ES7000 IA32 series 3413f4110a4SThomas Gleixner Moorestown MID devices 34206ac8346SIngo Molnar 34306ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 34406ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 34606ac8346SIngo Molnar 3478425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiif X86_64 3488425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 3498425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 3508425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 3518425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 3528425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 3538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 3548425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai systems out there.) 3558425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3568425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 3578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms: 35844b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 3598425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 3608425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 3618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 3628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 3638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 3648425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalaiendif 365c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 366c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 36744b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 36844b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 36944b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 37044b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 37144b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 37244b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 37344b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 374f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 37544b111b5SSteffen Persvold ---help--- 37644b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 37744b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 37844b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 37903b48632SNick Piggin 3806a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 381c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 38203f1a17cSRandy Dunlap select PARAVIRT_GUEST 3836a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3846a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 385c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 386ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 3878f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 3886a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3896a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3906a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3916a48565eSIngo Molnar 392c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 393c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 394c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 395c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 39654c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 3979d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 398c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 399c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 400c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 401c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 402c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 403c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 405c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 406c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 407c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 408c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 409c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 410c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 41137bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 412da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 413da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 414b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 415c751e17bSThomas Gleixner ---help--- 416c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 417c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 418c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 419c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 420dd137525SAlan Coxconfig X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 42143605ef1SAlan Cox bool "Intel MID platform support" 42243605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_32 42343605ef1SAlan Cox depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 42443605ef1SAlan Cox ---help--- 42543605ef1SAlan Cox Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID platform 42643605ef1SAlan Cox systems which do not have the PCI legacy interfaces (Moorestown, 42743605ef1SAlan Cox Medfield). If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 42843605ef1SAlan Cox 429dd137525SAlan Coxif X86_WANT_INTEL_MID 43043605ef1SAlan Cox 4314e2b1c4fSAlan Coxconfig X86_INTEL_MID 4324e2b1c4fSAlan Cox bool 4334e2b1c4fSAlan Cox 4341ea7c673SAlan Coxconfig X86_MDFLD 4351ea7c673SAlan Cox bool "Medfield MID platform" 4361ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI 4371ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on PCI_GOANY 4381ea7c673SAlan Cox depends on X86_IO_APIC 4397c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select X86_INTEL_MID 4407c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select SFI 4417c9c3a1eSAlan Cox select DW_APB_TIMER 4421ea7c673SAlan Cox select APB_TIMER 4431ea7c673SAlan Cox select I2C 4441ea7c673SAlan Cox select SPI 4451ea7c673SAlan Cox select INTEL_SCU_IPC 4461ea7c673SAlan Cox select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 44715a713dfSMika Westerberg select MFD_INTEL_MSIC 4481ea7c673SAlan Cox ---help--- 4491ea7c673SAlan Cox Medfield is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin 4501ea7c673SAlan Cox Internet Device(MID) platform. 4511ea7c673SAlan Cox Unlike standard x86 PCs, Medfield does not have many legacy devices 4521ea7c673SAlan Cox nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Medfield does 4531ea7c673SAlan Cox not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports. 4541ea7c673SAlan Cox 45543605ef1SAlan Coxendif 45643605ef1SAlan Cox 457c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_RDC321X 458c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 460c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 461c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select M486 462c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 463c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 464c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 465c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai as R-8610-(G). 466c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 467c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 468e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 4699c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 4709c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 471c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 4728f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 47383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, 47483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini STA2X11, default subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic 47583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini binary kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it 47683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini one by one and will fallback to default. 477d49c4288SYinghai Lu 478c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 479d49c4288SYinghai Lu 480506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 482e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 483a92d152eSPan, Jacob jun depends on PCI 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 4859c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 4868f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 487d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 488d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 489d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 490d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 491d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 493d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 4946fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 495d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 496d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 497d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 498d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on !X86_NUMAQ 499d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 500d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 501d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 502d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 5031b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 5041b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 505c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 506c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 507c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai ---help--- 5081b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 5091b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 5101b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5111b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 5121b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 5131b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 5141b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 5151b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 51683125a3aSAlessandro Rubiniconfig STA2X11 51783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 51883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 51983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 52083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select X86_DMA_REMAP 52183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select SWIOTLB 52283125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select MFD_STA2X11 52383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB 52483125a3aSAlessandro Rubini default n 52583125a3aSAlessandro Rubini ---help--- 52683125a3aSAlessandro Rubini This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 52783125a3aSAlessandro Rubini a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 52883125a3aSAlessandro Rubini PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 52983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 53083125a3aSAlessandro Rubini standard PC machines. 53183125a3aSAlessandro Rubini 5329c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 5339c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 534e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 5358f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5369c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 5379c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 5381f972768SIngo Molnar 5399c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 540c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 54126f7ef14SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP 5428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 5439c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5449c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 5459c398017SIngo Molnar 54682148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 54782148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 54882148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 54982148d1dSShérab ---help--- 55082148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 55182148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 55282148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 55382148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 55482148d1dSShérab 55582148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 55682148d1dSShérab 55782148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 55882148d1dSShérab 559ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 5603c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 562a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 5638f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 5738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 579506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 581095c0aa8SGlauber Costaconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 582095c0aa8SGlauber Costa bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 583095c0aa8SGlauber Costa select PARAVIRT 584095c0aa8SGlauber Costa default n 585095c0aa8SGlauber Costa ---help--- 586095c0aa8SGlauber Costa Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 587095c0aa8SGlauber Costa accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 588095c0aa8SGlauber Costa the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 589095c0aa8SGlauber Costa that, there can be a small performance impact. 590095c0aa8SGlauber Costa 591095c0aa8SGlauber Costa If in doubt, say N here. 592095c0aa8SGlauber Costa 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 59590993cddSMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 59690993cddSMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 59790993cddSMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 598790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 599f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 60090993cddSMarcelo Tosatti default y if PARAVIRT_GUEST 6018f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 6020cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 60390993cddSMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 60490993cddSMarcelo Tosatti of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 60590993cddSMarcelo Tosatti underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 60690993cddSMarcelo Tosatti timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 6070cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 610e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 611e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 6128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 613e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 614e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 615e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 616e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 617e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 618b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 619b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 620b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL 621b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge ---help--- 622b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 623b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 624b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 625b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 626b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on 627b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge native kernels, with various workloads. 628b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 629b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 630b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 6317af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 6327af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 6337af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 634506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 63697349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 63797349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 63897349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 6398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 64097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 64197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 64297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 64308677214SYinghai Luconfig NO_BOOTMEM 644774ea0bcSYinghai Lu def_bool y 64508677214SYinghai Lu 64603273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 64703273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 6488f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 649c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 65003273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 65103273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 65203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 65303273184SYinghai Lu ... 65403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 655aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 6583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 659e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 6623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 663f9b15df4SAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_SUMMIT 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 6683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 6708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 678e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 6873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6889d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 690bb24c471SJacob Panconfig APB_TIMER 691933b9463SAlan Cox def_bool y if X86_INTEL_MID 692933b9463SAlan Cox prompt "Intel MID APB Timer Support" if X86_INTEL_MID 69306c3df49SJamie Iles select DW_APB_TIMER 694a0c3832aSAlan Cox depends on X86_INTEL_MID && SFI 695bb24c471SJacob Pan help 696bb24c471SJacob Pan APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms. 697bb24c471SJacob Pan The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP 698bb24c471SJacob Pan systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 699bb24c471SJacob Pan as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU 700bb24c471SJacob Pan C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible. 701bb24c471SJacob Pan 7026a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 703506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 7047ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 7057ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 7066a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 7078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 7087ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 7097ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 7107ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 7117ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 7127ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 7146a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "GART IOMMU support" if EXPERT 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 71723ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 7188f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 7338f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 7483c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 7518f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 760a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 7618f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 7634454d327SJoe Millenbach which don't have a hardware IOMMU. Using this PCI devices 7644454d327SJoe Millenbach which can only access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems 7654454d327SJoe Millenbach with more than 3 GB of memory. 7664454d327SJoe Millenbach If unsure, say Y. 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 768a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 7693120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 7703120e25eSJan Beulich depends on CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU 771d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 7721184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 773ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 77436f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 77536f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 7768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 777ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 7781184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 78136f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 7822a3313f4SMichael K. Johnson range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP 78336f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 78478637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 785d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 78678637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 78778637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 7888f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 790d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 798b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 7998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 8063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 808b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 8098f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 818e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 8198f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 8328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 834506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 841506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 8423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 843e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 8463c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8471444e0c9SHenrik Kretzschmar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_IOAPIC 848506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 849506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 8503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 852506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 85341b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 85441b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 85541b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 8568f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 85741b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 85841b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 85941b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 86041b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 86141b9eb26SStefan Assmann 86241b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 86341b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 86441b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 86541b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 86641b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 86741b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 86841b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 86941b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 87041b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 87141b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 87241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 87341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 87441b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 87541b9eb26SStefan Assmann 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 877bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 878e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 880bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 881bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 883bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 8844efc0670SAndi Kleen 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 8863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 888c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 8943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 8953c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 896c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 8978f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9014efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 9026fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 903c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 9044efc0670SAndi Kleen ---help--- 9054efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 9064efc0670SAndi Kleen systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command 9074efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 9084efc0670SAndi Kleen 909b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 910b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 9116fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 912b2762686SAndi Kleen 913ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 914c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE 915ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 916ea149b36SAndi Kleen ---help--- 917ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 918ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 919ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 920ea149b36SAndi Kleen 9214efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_THERMAL_VECTOR 9224efc0670SAndi Kleen def_bool y 9235bb38adcSAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_INTEL 9244efc0670SAndi Kleen 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 9266a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 9298f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 953949a9d70SJean Delvare select HWMON 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 9739ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 9749ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 9835e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 990e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov tristate "CPU microcode loading support" 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 993e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 99580cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 996e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, 997e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov Xeon etc. The AMD support is for families 0x10 and later. You will 998e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is not 999e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov shipped with the Linux kernel. 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10018d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 10028d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1004e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1005e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov will be called microcode. 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10078d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 1008e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "Intel microcode loading support" 10098d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 10108d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 10118d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 10138d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 10148d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 10158d86f390SPeter Oruba 10168d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 10178d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 10188d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 10198d86f390SPeter Oruba 102080cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 1021e43f6e67SBorislav Petkov bool "AMD microcode loading support" 102280cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 102380cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 10248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 102580cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 102680cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 102780cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 10293c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 1031506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 10348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 10438f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 10526fc108a0SJan Beulich default HIGHMEM4G 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 10958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 1101eb068e78SH. Peter Anvin depends on !M486 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 11038f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 11116a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 11148f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1121506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1125506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1131506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 11543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 11589ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 11608f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1161506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1162506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1163506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1165506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1166600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 11673120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11683120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE 1169600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 117066f2b061SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT 11713120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 11723120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G 117366f2b061SFUJITA Tomonori 11749e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 11756a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT 11769e899816SNick Piggin default y 11779e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 11788f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 11799e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 11809e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 11819e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 11829e899816SNick Piggin 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1184506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1185fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1186506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1187604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 11880699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 11898f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1191fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1192506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1193506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1194506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1195506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1196c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1197fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1198fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1199fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1200fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1201fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1202fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1203fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1208eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 12093c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 12115da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 12128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1213eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1214eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1215eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1216eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1217eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 12213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 12248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12276ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 12286ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 12296ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 12306ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 12316ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 12326ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 12336ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 12346ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 12356ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 12381b7e03efSTejun Heo depends on NUMA 12398f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1245d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 124651591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 124751591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 12528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 12531184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1254692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12563b16651fSTejun Heoconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 12573b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12583b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && NUMA 12593b16651fSTejun Heo 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 12613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 12653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1268506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12703b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1271506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1272506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1273506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1274b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1275506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1276506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1277506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1278b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1279b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1280506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1281506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 12824272ebfbSYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1283506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1284506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1285506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12863b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 12873b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 12883b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 12893b16651fSTejun Heo 1290506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1292b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1294506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 12953120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 12963120e25eSJan Beulich depends on X86_64 && MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1297506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12983b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 12993b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 13003b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 13013b16651fSTejun Heo 1302a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1303a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1304a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1305a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1306a29815a3SAvi Kivity 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 13116fc108a0SJan Beulich depends on HIGHMEM 13128f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13189f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 13199f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 13208f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 13219f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 13229f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 13239f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 13249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 13259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 13269f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 13279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 13289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 13299f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13309f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 13319f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 13329f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 13339f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 13349f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13359f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 13369f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 13379f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 13389f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 13399f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1340c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1341c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1342c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1343c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 13448f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1345c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1346c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1347c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 13489ea77bdbSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW 1349d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS" 1350d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64 1351d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin range 4 640 13528f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1353d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS. 1354fc381519SIngo Molnar 1355d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel 1356d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin must not use, so that page must always be reserved. 1357fc381519SIngo Molnar 1358d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a 1359d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range 1360d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable 1361d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel. 1362fc381519SIngo Molnar 1363d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you 1364d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages 1365d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the 1366d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the 1367d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin entire low memory range. 1368d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1369d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does 1370d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware 1371d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin hotplug events) then you might want to enable 1372d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check 1373d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin typical corruption patterns. 1374d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin 1375d0cd7425SH. Peter Anvin Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure. 1376fc381519SIngo Molnar 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1390506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 14046fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14056a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14367225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 143895ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 14392ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 144095ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 144195ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 14428f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1443aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1444aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 144595ffa243SYinghai Lu 1446aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1447692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1448aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 144995ffa243SYinghai Lu 14502ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 145195ffa243SYinghai Lu 145295ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1453f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1454f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1455f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 145695ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14578f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1458f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 145995ffa243SYinghai Lu 146012031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 146112031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 146212031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 146312031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 146412031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 14658f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 146612031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1467aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 146812031a62SYinghai Lu 14692e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 14706fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 14716a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 14722a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 14738f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 14742e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1475042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 14762e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 14772e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 14782e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14792e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1480042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 14812e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 14822e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 14832e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 148446cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED 148546cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 148646cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi depends on X86_PAT 148746cf98cdSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1488628c6246SH. Peter Anvinconfig ARCH_RANDOM 1489628c6246SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1490628c6246SH. Peter Anvin prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT 1491628c6246SH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 1492628c6246SH. Peter Anvin Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction 1493628c6246SH. Peter Anvin (Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers. 1494628c6246SH. Peter Anvin If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically 1495628c6246SH. Peter Anvin secure hardware random number generator. 1496628c6246SH. Peter Anvin 149751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_SMAP 149851ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 149951ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT 150051ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin ---help--- 150151ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security 150251ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small 150351ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is 150451ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin also a small increase in the kernel size if this is enabled. 150551ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 150651ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin If unsure, say Y. 150751ae4a2dSH. Peter Anvin 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 15099ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 15105b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15128b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15158b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 15168b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 15178b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 15188b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 15198b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 15208b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1522291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1523291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1524291f3632SMatt Fleming depends on EFI 1525291f3632SMatt Fleming ---help--- 1526291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1527291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1528291f3632SMatt Fleming 15290c759662SMatt Fleming See Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt for more information. 15300c759662SMatt Fleming 1531506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 15323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 15348f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 15419c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1547506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 15482a8ac745SJean Delvare bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection" 15498f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1551113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1552113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1560113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1561113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 15678f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1578506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1579506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1581506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 158204b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1583506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 15848f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1585506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1586506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1587506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1588506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1589506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1590506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1591506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1593506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1594506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15953ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 15963ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15973ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1598fee7b0d8SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION 15998f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 160089081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 160189081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 16023ab83521SHuang Ying 1603506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 16046a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 1605ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 16068f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1613506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1614506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1615506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1617506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1618506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1619506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1620506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1621506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1622506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1623506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1624ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 1625ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 1626ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 1627ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 1628ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 1629ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 1630ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 1631ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1632ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 1633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1634506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1644506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 164526717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 164626717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 16478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1661845adf72SH. Peter Anvin# Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support 1662845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 1663845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 1664845adf72SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE 1665845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 1666506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 16676fc108a0SJan Beulich hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1668ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 1669ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin range 0x2000 0x1000000 16708f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1689506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 16907c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 16914b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 16937c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 16947c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 16957c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 16967c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 16977c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 169980aa1dffSFenghua Yuconfig BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 170080aa1dffSFenghua Yu bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" 170180aa1dffSFenghua Yu default n 170280aa1dffSFenghua Yu depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && EXPERIMENTAL 170380aa1dffSFenghua Yu ---help--- 170480aa1dffSFenghua Yu Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. 170580aa1dffSFenghua Yu 170680aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch 170780aa1dffSFenghua Yu is turned on, there is no need to give cpu0_hotplug kernel 170880aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter and the CPU0 hotplug feature is enabled by default. 170980aa1dffSFenghua Yu 171080aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please note: there are two known CPU0 dependencies if you want 171180aa1dffSFenghua Yu to enable the CPU0 hotplug feature either by this switch or by 171280aa1dffSFenghua Yu cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter. 171380aa1dffSFenghua Yu 171480aa1dffSFenghua Yu First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. 171580aa1dffSFenghua Yu So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. 171680aa1dffSFenghua Yu 171780aa1dffSFenghua Yu Second dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. CPU0 can not 171880aa1dffSFenghua Yu offline if any interrupt can not migrate out of CPU0. There may 171980aa1dffSFenghua Yu be other CPU0 dependencies. 172080aa1dffSFenghua Yu 172180aa1dffSFenghua Yu Please make sure the dependencies are under your control before 172280aa1dffSFenghua Yu you enable this feature. 172380aa1dffSFenghua Yu 172480aa1dffSFenghua Yu Say N if you don't want to enable CPU0 hotplug feature by default. 172580aa1dffSFenghua Yu You still can enable the CPU0 hotplug feature at boot by kernel 172680aa1dffSFenghua Yu parameter cpu0_hotplug. 172780aa1dffSFenghua Yu 1728a71c8bc5SFenghua Yuconfig DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 1729a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu def_bool n 1730a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" 1731a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && EXPERIMENTAL 1732a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu ---help--- 1733a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as 1734a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User 1735a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu can online CPU0 back after boot time. 1736a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1737a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu To debug CPU0 hotplug, you need to enable CPU0 offline/online 1738a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu feature by either turning on CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 during 1739a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu compilation or giving cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter at boot. 1740a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1741a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu If unsure, say N. 1742a71c8bc5SFenghua Yu 1743506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 17443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 17453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1746af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 17478f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1748af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1749e84446deSRandy Dunlap 1750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1756516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1757516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 17588f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1759516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1760516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1761516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1762516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1763516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1764516cbf37STim Bird 1765516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1766516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1767516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1768516cbf37STim Bird 1769516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1770516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1771516cbf37STim Bird 1772516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1773516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1774516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1775516cbf37STim Bird default "" 17768f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1777516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1778516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1779516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1780516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1781516cbf37STim Bird 1782516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1783516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1784516cbf37STim Bird 1785516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1786516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1787516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1788516cbf37STim Bird 1789516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1790516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1791516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 17928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1793516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1794516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1795516cbf37STim Bird 1796516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1797516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1798516cbf37STim Bird 1799506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1801506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 180535551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 180635551053SGary Hade def_bool y 180735551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 180835551053SGary Hade 1809e534c7c5SLee Schermerhornconfig USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1810645a7919STejun Heo def_bool y 1811e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn depends on NUMA 1812e534c7c5SLee Schermerhorn 1813da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1815e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 18163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1818e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1823efafc8b2SFeng Tangsource "drivers/sfi/Kconfig" 1824efafc8b2SFeng Tang 1825a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 18266fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1827282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 1828a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1831efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 18472dc98fd3SMichael Witten and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.txt> 18482dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 18928f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1915*dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 19178f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 19288f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1932e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 19418f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1951bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 195527471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 195627471fdbSAndy Henroid 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 19631ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 19641c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 19668f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1974efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1976e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1977e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1982e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1983e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1985e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20003ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 200176fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 20023ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 20033ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 20042bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 20052bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 20062bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 20103c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2011efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2014e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 20153c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20160aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 20193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 20205f0db7a2SFeng Tang depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 2021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20223ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 20232bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 20242bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 20253ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2026b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2027b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2028b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2029b5401a96SAlex Nixon select SWIOTLB_XEN 2030b5401a96SAlex Nixon 2031e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 20323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2033e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 2034e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2035e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2036e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 2037e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 2038e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20393f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 20406a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 204164a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 20423f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 20433f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 20443f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 20453f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 20463f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 204764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 204864a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 204964a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 205064a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 205164a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 2052e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 2053e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2054e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 2055e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 20561c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2057e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 20581c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 20591c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 20601c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 20611c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 20621c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2063e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2064e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 2065e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2066e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2067e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 20688f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2069e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2070e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2072e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 2073e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 2074e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2075e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 2076e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 2077e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 2078e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 2079e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 2080e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 2081e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2082e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 2083e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 2084e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 2085e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 2086e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2087e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 2088e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2089e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 2090e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2091e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 2092e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2093e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 2094e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 20958f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2096e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 2097e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 2098e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 2099e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 2100e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2101e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 2102e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2103e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 2104e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 2105592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 2106e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 21078f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2108e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 2109e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 2110e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 2111e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 2112e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 2113e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 21143ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 21153ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 211654008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 21173c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 2118dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 211945bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 2120b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 21218f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 21223ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 21233ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 21243ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2125a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 2126a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 212797c4cb71SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535 && PM_SLEEP 2128a3128588SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 2129bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake ---help--- 213097c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 2131bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 2132cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 2133cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 2134cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 2135cfee9597SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2136cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 2137cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 2138cfee9597SDaniel Drake 21397feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 21407feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 2141d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM 2142ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 2143d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 21447feda8e9SDaniel Drake select GPIO_CS5535 21457feda8e9SDaniel Drake select MFD_CORE 21467feda8e9SDaniel Drake ---help--- 21477feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 21487bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 21497feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 21507bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 21512cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 2152e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2153e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 21547feda8e9SDaniel Drake 2155a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 2156a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 2157d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 2158d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 2159a0f30f59SDaniel Drake ---help--- 2160a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 2161a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 2162a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 2163a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 2164e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2165d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 2166d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 2167d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 2168d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ---help--- 2169d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 2170d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 2171d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 2172d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 2173d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2174d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 2175d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 2176d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2177d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 2178d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 2179da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 2180da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 2181da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 2182da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville ---help--- 2183da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 2184da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 21853197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 21863197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 21873197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 21883197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 21893197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville ---help--- 21903197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 21913197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 2192e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 2193e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 219423ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 2195e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 21960e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 2197e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2198e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2199e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2200e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 2201e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2202388b78adSAlexandre Bounineconfig RAPIDIO 2203388b78adSAlexandre Bounine bool "RapidIO support" 2204388b78adSAlexandre Bounine depends on PCI 2205388b78adSAlexandre Bounine default n 2206388b78adSAlexandre Bounine help 2207388b78adSAlexandre Bounine If you say Y here, the kernel will include drivers and 2208388b78adSAlexandre Bounine infrastructure code to support RapidIO interconnect devices. 2209388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2210388b78adSAlexandre Bouninesource "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" 2211388b78adSAlexandre Bounine 2212e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2213e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2214e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2215e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 2216e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2217e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 2218e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2219e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 2220e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 2221e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 2222a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 2223af1839ebSCatalin Marinas select HAVE_UID16 22248f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 22255fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 22265fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 22275fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 2228e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2229e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 2230e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 22316b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 22328f9ca475SIngo Molnar ---help--- 2233e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 2234e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 22350bf62763SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_X32 22365fd92e65SH. J. Lu bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode (EXPERIMENTAL)" 22375fd92e65SH. J. Lu depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION && EXPERIMENTAL 22385fd92e65SH. J. Lu ---help--- 22395fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 22405fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 22415fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 22425fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 22435fd92e65SH. J. Lu 22445fd92e65SH. J. Lu You will need a recent binutils (2.22 or later) with 22455fd92e65SH. J. Lu elf32_x86_64 support enabled to compile a kernel with this 22465fd92e65SH. J. Lu option set. 22475fd92e65SH. J. Lu 2248e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 22493c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 22500bf62763SH. Peter Anvin depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 225148b25c43SChris Metcalf select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 2252e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 22533120e25eSJan Beulichif COMPAT 2254e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 22553120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 2256e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2257e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 22583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 22593120e25eSJan Beulich depends on SYSVIPC 2260e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2261ee009e4aSDavid Howellsconfig KEYS_COMPAT 22623120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 22633120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KEYS 22643120e25eSJan Beulichendif 2265ee009e4aSDavid Howells 2266e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2267e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2268e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2269e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 2270e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 2271e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 2272e5beae16SKeith Packard 22733cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP 22743cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu bool 22753cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu select STOP_MACHINE if SMP 22763cba11d3SMasami Hiramatsu 22774692d77fSAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DEV_DMA_OPS 22784692d77fSAlessandro Rubini bool 227983125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on X86_64 || STA2X11 22804692d77fSAlessandro Rubini 2281f7219a53SAlessandro Rubiniconfig X86_DMA_REMAP 2282f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini bool 228383125a3aSAlessandro Rubini depends on STA2X11 2284f7219a53SAlessandro Rubini 2285e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 2286e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2287e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 2288e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2289e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 2290e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2291e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 2292e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2293e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 2294e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2295e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 2296e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2297e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 2298e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2299edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2300edf88417SAvi Kivity 2301e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2302