11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg help 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 2728b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 283f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 291f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 30da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 319edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 32e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 33677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3548d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3660a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 37e0ec9483SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KVM 3849793b03SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 3999bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 40323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4158340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 428d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 437d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4473531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 45b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 4673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 4773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 48b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 71aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 72aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 73aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 741f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 751f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 761f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 771f84260cSChristoph Lameter 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 96b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 97b93a531eSJan Beulich 98b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 99b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 104a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1059ba16087SJan Beulich bool 106a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1101032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1111032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1121032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1131032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg 116a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 117a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 118a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1191032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1201032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1211032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1269a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1279a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 12989cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1321b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1331b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1341b27d05bSPekka Enberg 135dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 13689c9c4c5SBrian Gerst def_bool y 137b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 1389f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1399f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1409f0e8d04SMike Travis 141801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 142801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 143aced3ceeSIngo Molnar depends on !SMP 144801e4062SJohannes Berg 145f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 146f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 147f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 159765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 160765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 161765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1628d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1766cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1776cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1786cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1796cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1806b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1816b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1826b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1836b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1846b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1856b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1866b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1876b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 190ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 1918d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 1948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1953e5095d1SIngo Molnar depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 1968d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 1998d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 200506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 201dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 203506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 205506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 207506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 22903502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2350b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2360b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 23717483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2380b8f1efaSYinghai Lu help 239973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 240973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 241973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2420b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 243973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 244973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 245973656feSIngo Molnar 246973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2470b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 24848a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 24948a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 250b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 25148a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 25248a1b10aSYinghai Lu help 25348a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 25448a1b10aSYinghai Lu 25548a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 25648a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2576695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2587a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2597a527688SJan Beulich default y 2605ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2616695c85bSYinghai Lu help 2626695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2636695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2646695c85bSYinghai Lu 265506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PC 266e2c75d9fSIngo Molnar def_bool y 267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 26806ac8346SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NON_STANDARD 26906ac8346SIngo Molnar bool "Support for non-standard x86 platforms" 27006ac8346SIngo Molnar help 27106ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 27206ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 27306ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 27406ac8346SIngo Molnar 27506ac8346SIngo Molnar If you enable this option then you'll be able to select a number 27606ac8346SIngo Molnar of less common non-PC x86 platforms: VisWS, RDC321, SGI/UV. 27706ac8346SIngo Molnar 27806ac8346SIngo Molnar If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 27906ac8346SIngo Molnar generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 28006ac8346SIngo Molnar 2811b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 2821b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 28336619a8aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 28406ac8346SIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 2851b84e1c8SIngo Molnar help 2861b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 2871b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 2881b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 2891b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 2901b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 2911b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 2921b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 2931b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 2941f972768SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RDC321X 2951f972768SIngo Molnar bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 2961f972768SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 29706ac8346SIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 2981f972768SIngo Molnar select M486 2991f972768SIngo Molnar select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 3001f972768SIngo Molnar help 3011f972768SIngo Molnar This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 3021f972768SIngo Molnar as R-8610-(G). 3031f972768SIngo Molnar If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 3041f972768SIngo Molnar 30503b48632SNick Pigginconfig X86_UV 30603b48632SNick Piggin bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 30703b48632SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 30806ac8346SIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 30903b48632SNick Piggin help 31003b48632SNick Piggin This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 31103b48632SNick Piggin If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 31203b48632SNick Piggin 3136a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 3146a48565eSIngo Molnar bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" 3156a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 3166a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 3176a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 3186a48565eSIngo Molnar help 3196a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3206a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 3216a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 3226a48565eSIngo Molnar 3239e111f3eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_ELAN 3249e111f3eSIngo Molnar bool "AMD Elan" 3259e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 3269e111f3eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 3279e111f3eSIngo Molnar help 3289e111f3eSIngo Molnar Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 3299e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3309e111f3eSIngo Molnar Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 3319e111f3eSIngo Molnar 3329e111f3eSIngo Molnar If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 3339e111f3eSIngo Molnar 334f67ae5c9SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VOYAGER 335f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar bool "Voyager (NCR)" 336f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP && !PCI && BROKEN 337f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 338f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar help 339f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 340f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 341f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar 342f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar *** WARNING *** 343f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar 344f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 345f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 346f67ae5c9SIngo Molnar 347*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnarconfig X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3489c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 3499c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && SMP 3509c398017SIngo Molnar depends on X86_NON_STANDARD 3519c398017SIngo Molnar help 3529c398017SIngo Molnar This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 3539c398017SIngo Molnar subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 3549c398017SIngo Molnar if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 3559c398017SIngo Molnar fallback to default. 3569c398017SIngo Molnar 3579c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_NUMAQ 3589c398017SIngo Molnar bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 359*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3609c398017SIngo Molnar select NUMA 3619c398017SIngo Molnar select X86_MPPARSE 3629c398017SIngo Molnar help 3639c398017SIngo Molnar This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 3649c398017SIngo Molnar NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 3659c398017SIngo Molnar bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 3669c398017SIngo Molnar of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 3679c398017SIngo Molnar firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 3689c398017SIngo Molnar 3699c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_SUMMIT 3709c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 371*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3729c398017SIngo Molnar help 3739c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 3749c398017SIngo Molnar In particular, it is needed for the x440. 3759c398017SIngo Molnar 3769c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_ES7000 3779c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 378*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3799c398017SIngo Molnar help 3809c398017SIngo Molnar Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 3819c398017SIngo Molnar supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 3829c398017SIngo Molnar 3839c398017SIngo Molnarconfig X86_BIGSMP 3849c398017SIngo Molnar bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 385*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 3869c398017SIngo Molnar help 3879c398017SIngo Molnar This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 3889c398017SIngo Molnar and if the system is not of any sub-arch type above. 3899c398017SIngo Molnar 390ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 3913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 393a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 402506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 412506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 414506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 41742d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 424790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 425790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 426790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 427f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 428790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa help 429790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 430790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 431790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 432790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 433790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 434790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4350cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4360cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4370cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 4380cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti help 4390cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4400cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4410cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 442506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 444e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 445e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 446e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost help 447e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 448e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 449e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 450e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 451e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4527af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4537af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4547af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4557af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 456506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 45897349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 45997349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 46097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 46197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 46297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 46397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 46497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 46503273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 46603273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 467c64df707SYinghai Lu help 468c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 46903273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 47003273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 47103273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 47203273184SYinghai Lu ... 47303273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 474aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 476506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 4773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 478*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD 479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 480506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 4813c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 482*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD 483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 484506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 486506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 4873c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 497e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5063c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5079d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 508506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5117ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5127ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5137ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5147ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni help 5157ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5167ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5177ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5187ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5197ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 520506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 522506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 523506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 524506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 526506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 527506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 528506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 529506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 530506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5662b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 5672b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 56807c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 569a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 57024d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 5712b188723SJoerg Roedel help 57218d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 57318d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 57418d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 57518d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 57618d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 57718d22200SJoerg Roedel 57818d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 57918d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 58018d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 5812b188723SJoerg Roedel 5822e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 5832e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 5842e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 5852e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 5862e117604SJoerg Roedel help 5872e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 5882e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 5892e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 5902e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 5912e117604SJoerg Roedel 592506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 593506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 594a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 595506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 596506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 597506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 598506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 599506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 600506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 601506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 602a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 60318b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 604d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6051aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6061aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6071aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6081184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6091184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 61036f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 61136f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6121184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6131184dc2fSMike Travis help 6141184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6151184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 616506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 617506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 61836f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 61936f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 62078637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 621d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 62278637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 62378637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 624506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 625506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 626d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 628506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 629506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 631506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 632506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 633506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 634b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 637506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 644b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 654*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 665506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 6783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 679*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 6823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 683*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 6863c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 68941b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 69041b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 69141b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 69241b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 69341b9eb26SStefan Assmann help 69441b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 69541b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 69641b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 69741b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 69841b9eb26SStefan Assmann 69941b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 70041b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 70141b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 70241b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 70341b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 70441b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 70541b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 70641b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 70741b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 70841b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 70941b9eb26SStefan Assmann 71041b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 71141b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 71241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 713506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 714506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 715506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 716506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 717506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 718506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 719506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 720506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 721506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 722506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 723506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7303c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7313c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 742506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 743506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 750506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 751506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 760efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 772506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8129ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8139ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8225e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 824506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 825506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8298d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 83380cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 83480cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 83580cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 83680cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 83780cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 83880cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8408d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8418d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 845506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8468d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 84718dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8488d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8498d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8508d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8518d86f390SPeter Oruba --help--- 8528d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 8538d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 8548d86f390SPeter Oruba 8558d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 8568d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 8578d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 8588d86f390SPeter Oruba 85980cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 86018dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 86180cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 86280cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 86380cc9f10SPeter Oruba --help--- 86480cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 86580cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 86680cc9f10SPeter Oruba 867506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 8683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 869506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 870506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 871506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 872506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 873506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 874506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 875506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 876506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 877506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 878506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 880506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 9933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 9979ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1005600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1006600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1007600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10089e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10099e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10109e899816SNick Piggin default y 10119e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10129e899816SNick Piggin help 10139e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10149e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10159e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10169e899816SNick Piggin 1017506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1018506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1019fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1020506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 10210699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 1022506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n if X86_PC 10230699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 1024506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1025506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1026fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1027506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1028506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1031c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1032fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1033fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1034fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1035fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1036fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1037fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1038fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1043506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 1047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1050506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10553c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10626ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 10636ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 10646ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 10656ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 10666ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 10676ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 10686ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 10696ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10706ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 1074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1079506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1080d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1081efac4189SThomas Gleixner range 1 9 if X86_64 1082d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 10871184dc2fSMike Travis help 10881184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 10891184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 10923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1093506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1094506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 10963c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11003c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 110999809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1113b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1117b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1118b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1119b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1120b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1121b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1125*e0c7ae37SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1129506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1131b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1132506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1137506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11489f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11499f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11509f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 11519f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11529f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 11539f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 11549f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 11559f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 11569f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 11579f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 11589f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 11599f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11609f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 11619f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 11629f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 11639f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 11649f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11659f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 11669f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 11679f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 11689f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 11699f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1170c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1171c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1172c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1173c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 1174c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 1175c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1176c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1177c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1178fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1179fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1180fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 1181fc381519SIngo Molnar help 1182fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1183fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1184fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1185fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1186fc381519SIngo Molnar 1187fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1188fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1189fc381519SIngo Molnar 1190fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1191fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1192fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1193fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1194fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1195fc381519SIngo Molnar 1196fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1197fc381519SIngo Molnar 1198506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1199506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1200506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1201506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1203506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1204506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1205506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1206506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1207506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1208506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1209506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12567225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 125895ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 12592ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 126095ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 126195ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 126295ffa243SYinghai Lu help 1263aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1264aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 126595ffa243SYinghai Lu 1266aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1267aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1268aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 126995ffa243SYinghai Lu 12702ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 127195ffa243SYinghai Lu 127295ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1273f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1274f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1275f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 127695ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 127795ffa243SYinghai Lu help 1278f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 127995ffa243SYinghai Lu 128012031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 128112031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 128212031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 128312031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 128412031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 128512031a62SYinghai Lu help 128612031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1287aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1288506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12892e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 12902a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 12912e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 12922a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 12932e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com help 12942e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1295042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 12962e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 12972e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 12982e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 12992e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1300042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13012e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13022e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13032e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13059ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13065b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13088b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13118b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13128b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13138b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13148b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13158b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13168b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1318506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1324506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1325506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1326506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1327506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13289c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1332506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1334113c5413SIngo Molnarconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1335113c5413SIngo Molnar bool 1336113c5413SIngo Molnar 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 133972370f2aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 1340113c5413SIngo Molnar select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1343113c5413SIngo Molnar feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on 1344113c5413SIngo Molnar the stack just before the return address, and validates 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1348506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1352113c5413SIngo Molnar detected and for those versions, this configuration option is 1353113c5413SIngo Molnar ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1357506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 137404b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13873ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 13883ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13893ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 139089081d17SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 13913ab83521SHuang Ying help 139289081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 139389081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 13943ab83521SHuang Ying 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1409506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 14817c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 14824b19ed91SIngo Molnar depends on SMP && HOTPLUG 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 14847c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 14857c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 14867c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 14877c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 14887c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 14913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 14923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1493af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1495af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1497506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1498506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1503516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1504516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1505516cbf37STim Bird default n 1506516cbf37STim Bird help 1507516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1508516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1509516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1510516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1511516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1512516cbf37STim Bird 1513516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1514516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1515516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1516516cbf37STim Bird 1517516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1518516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1519516cbf37STim Bird 1520516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1521516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1522516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1523516cbf37STim Bird default "" 1524516cbf37STim Bird help 1525516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1526516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1527516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1528516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1529516cbf37STim Bird 1530516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1531516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1532516cbf37STim Bird 1533516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1534516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1535516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1536516cbf37STim Bird 1537516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1538516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1539516cbf37STim Bird default n 1540516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1541516cbf37STim Bird help 1542516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1543516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1544516cbf37STim Bird 1545516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1546516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1547516cbf37STim Bird 1548506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 155435551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 155535551053SGary Hade def_bool y 155635551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 155735551053SGary Hade 1558506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1562da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1563e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1564e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 15653c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1566e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1567e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1568e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1569e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1570e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1571e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1572a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1573a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1574a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1575a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1576a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1577e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1578e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1579efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1580e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1582e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1583e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1589e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1590e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1591e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1592e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1593e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1594e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 159553471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1596e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1612e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1616e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1617e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1618e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 170227471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 170327471fdbSAndy Henroid 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17101ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17111c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1719e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1720e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1721efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1727e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1728e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1738e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17473ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17483ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17493ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17503ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17512bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17522bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17532bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 17573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1758efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 17623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1763efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 17663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17693ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 17702bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 17712bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 17723ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 17743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 17923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 17933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18033c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1808e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1810e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18119fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18129fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18139fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18149fa8c481SSuresh Siddha help 18159fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18169fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18179fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18189fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18253c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 1831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1841e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 185772ee6ebbSIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 18883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18973ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 18983ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 18993ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19003ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon help 19013ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19023ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19033ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1904bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1905bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1908bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1924a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1928e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1929e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1930e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1931e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19326b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 1933e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1934e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1935e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1936e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19373c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1939e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 19453c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1946b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1951e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 1952e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 1953e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 1954e5beae16SKeith Packard 1955e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1963e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 1968e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1969edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 1970edf88417SAvi Kivity 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 1972