1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 4104daea1SMasahiro Yamada bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(ARCH)" = "x86" 5104daea1SMasahiro Yamada default "$(ARCH)" != "i386" 6a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 113120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 123120e25eSJan Beulich depends on !64BIT 13341c787eSIngo Molnar # Options that are inherently 32-bit kernel only: 14341c787eSIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 15341c787eSIngo Molnar select CLKSRC_I8253 16341c787eSIngo Molnar select CLONE_BACKWARDS 17157e118bSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_VDSO_32 18117ed454SThomas Gleixner select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 19157e118bSThomas Gleixner select KMAP_LOCAL 20341c787eSIngo Molnar select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 21341c787eSIngo Molnar select OLD_SIGACTION 222ca408d9SBrian Gerst select ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 23daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 24daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 253120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 263120e25eSJan Beulich depends on 64BIT 27d94e0685SIngo Molnar # Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only: 284eb0716eSAlexandre Ghiti select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE 29f9aad622SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP 303049def1SJeff Xu select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 31c12d3362SArd Biesheuvel select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128 320bff0aaeSSuren Baghdasaryan select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 3375182022SPeter Xu select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 34d94e0685SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 35d94e0685SIngo Molnar select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 36f616ab59SChristoph Hellwig select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 3709230cbcSChristoph Hellwig select SWIOTLB 387facdc42SAl Viro select ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 3963703f37SKefeng Wang select ZONE_DMA32 4014e56fb2SMike Rapoport (IBM) select EXECMEM if DYNAMIC_FTRACE 41b9020bdbSTony Luck select ACPI_MRRM if ACPI 421032c0baSSam Ravnborg 43518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FORCE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 44518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 45518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on X86_32 46518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 47518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select DYNAMIC_FTRACE 48518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 49518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) We keep the static function tracing (!DYNAMIC_FTRACE) around 50518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in order to test the non static function tracing in the 51518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) generic code, as other architectures still use it. But we 52518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) only need to keep it around for x86_64. No need to keep it 53518049d9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) for x86_32. For x86_32, force DYNAMIC_FTRACE. 54d94e0685SIngo Molnar# 55d94e0685SIngo Molnar# Arch settings 56d94e0685SIngo Molnar# 57d94e0685SIngo Molnar# ( Note that options that are marked 'if X86_64' could in principle be 58d94e0685SIngo Molnar# ported to 32-bit as well. ) 59d94e0685SIngo Molnar# 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 62c763ea26SIngo Molnar # 63c763ea26SIngo Molnar # Note: keep this list sorted alphabetically 64c763ea26SIngo Molnar # 656471b825SIngo Molnar select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI 666e0a0ea1SGraeme Gregory select ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT if ACPI 67a02f66bbSJames Morse select ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU if ACPI_PROCESSOR && HOTPLUG_CPU 68942fa985SYury Norov select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if X86_32 692a21ad57SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT 70fe42754bSSean Christopherson select ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS 711f6d3a8fSMasami Hiramatsu select ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 721e866974SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION if X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION 735c11f00bSDavid Hildenbrand select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG if X86_64 7491024b3cSAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 75cebc774fSAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK if (PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2) && (X86_64 || X86_PAE) 761e866974SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if X86_64 && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 7791dda51aSAleksey Makarov select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE if ACPI 78735e5920SDavid Kaplan select ARCH_HAS_CPU_ATTACK_VECTORS if CPU_MITIGATIONS 79c2280be8SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 801156b441SDavidlohr Bueso select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_INVALIDATE_MEMREGION 817c7077a7SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT 828f23f5dbSJason Gunthorpe select ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID if IOMMU_SVA 832792d84eSKees Cook select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 84fa5b6ec9SLaura Abbott select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 85399145f9SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE if !X86_PAE 8621266be9SDan Williams select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 87de6c85bfSChristoph Hellwig select ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS if GART_IOMMU || XEN 88b1a57bbfSDouglas Anderson select ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG if KGDB 896471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 9047410d83SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) select ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX if X86_64 && STRICT_MODULE_RWX 9172d93104SLinus Torvalds select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER 926974f0c4SDaniel Micay select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 93957e3facSRiku Voipio select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL 94bece04b5SMarco Elver select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64 95b0b8a15bSSamuel Holland select ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT 960c9c1d56SThiago Jung Bauermann select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 9710bcc80eSMathieu Desnoyers select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 9849f88c70SPaul E. McKenney select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS 990ebeea8cSDaniel Borkmann select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 100c763ea26SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64 101476e8583SPeter Zijlstra select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY 1023010a5eaSLaurent Dufour select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 10371ce1ab5SKinsey Ho select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 104eed9a328SYu Zhao select ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG if PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2 1050aed55afSDan Williams select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64 106ec6347bbSDan Williams select ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC if X86_64 107d2852a22SDaniel Borkmann select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 108d253ca0cSRick Edgecombe select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 109ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 110ad21fc4fSLaura Abbott select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 111ac1ab12aSMathieu Desnoyers select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 11225c619e5SBrian Gerst select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 113918327e9SKees Cook select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN 1147e01ccb4SZong Li select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX 11563703f37SKefeng Wang select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET if EXPERT 1166471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 117ba386777SVignesh Balasubramanian select ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES 11804d5ea46SAneesh Kumar K.V select ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 1196471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI 12077fbbc81SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 1215e2c18c0SMark Salter select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO 1223599fe12SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_STACKWALK 1232c870e61SArnd Bergmann select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI 1246471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW 1255d6ad668SMike Rapoport select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 1266470fb2bSAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS 127d283d422SPasha Tatashin select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK if X86_64 1286471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64 12914df3267SThomas Gleixner select ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if NR_CPUS <= 4096 1303c516f89SSami Tolvanen select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG if X86_64 1313c516f89SSami Tolvanen select ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS if X86_64 && CFI_CLANG 132583bfd48SNathan Chancellor select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 133583bfd48SNathan Chancellor select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 134d2d6422fSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 135315ad878SRong Xu select ARCH_SUPPORTS_AUTOFDO_CLANG 136d5dc9583SRong Xu select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PROPELLER_CLANG if X86_64 1376471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 138909639aaSH. Peter Anvin (Intel) select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if X86_CX8 139dce44566SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 1406471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS 1416471b825SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS 1422ce0d7f9SMark Brown select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS 143ce4a4e56SAndy Lutomirski select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 14481c22041SDaniel Borkmann select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT if X86_64 145c763ea26SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 14651c2ee6dSNick Desaulniers select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 14707431506SAnshuman Khandual select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 14876303ee8SJann Horn select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if X86_64 14959612b24SNathan Chancellor select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 1500b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP if X86_64 1510b6f1582SAneesh Kumar K.V select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if X86_64 15208efe293SFrank van der Linden select ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT if X86_64 15338d8b4e6SHuang Ying select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64 154b5f06f64SBalbir Singh select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH 155af896715SAndy Lutomirski select ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM 15610916706SShile Zhang select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 1576471b825SIngo Molnar select CLKEVT_I8253 1586471b825SIngo Molnar select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 1597cf8f44aSAlexander Potapenko # Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0 1607cf8f44aSAlexander Potapenko # in strings and cause false KMSAN reports. 1617cf8f44aSAlexander Potapenko select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !KMSAN 1623aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner select DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 16345471cd9SLinus Torvalds select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB 16445471cd9SLinus Torvalds select EDAC_SUPPORT 1656471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 166cb81deefSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST_IDLE if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 1676471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 1686471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 1696471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE 1705b95f94cSJames Morse select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES 17161dc0f55SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES 1726471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 17327d6b4d1SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_ENTRY 1746471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_IOMAP 175c7d6c9ddSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP 1760fa115daSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_MATRIX_ALLOCATOR if X86_LOCAL_APIC 177ad7a929fSThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION if SMP 1786471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 179c201c917SThomas Gleixner select GENERIC_IRQ_RESERVATION_MODE 1806471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 1816471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 1826471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 1836471b825SIngo Molnar select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1847ac87074SVincenzo Frascino select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 185dafde296SThomas Weißschuh select GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE 186550a77a7SDmitry Safonov select GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 1877e90ffb7SAdrian Hunter select GENERIC_VDSO_OVERFLOW_PROTECT 1886ca297d4SPeter Zijlstra select GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH if X86_PAE 18917e5888eSHans de Goede select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND 1907edaeb68SThomas Gleixner select HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP if X86_64 191fcbfe812SNiklas Schnelle select HAS_IOPORT 1926471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI 1936471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI 1942a19be61SVlastimil Babka select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 1956471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 1966471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE 197eed1fceeSSong Liu select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC if X86_64 1986471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 199b34006c4SArd Biesheuvel select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 200d17a1d97SAndrey Ryabinin select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64 2010609ae01SDaniel Axtens select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if X86_64 2021dc0da6eSAlexander Potapenko select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE 2034ca8cc8dSAlexander Potapenko select HAVE_ARCH_KMSAN if X86_64 2046471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 20557fbad15SKees Cook select HAVE_ARCH_KSTACK_ERASE 2069e08f57dSDaniel Cashman select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU 2079e08f57dSDaniel Cashman select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT 2081b028f78SDmitry Safonov select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT 209271ca788SArd Biesheuvel select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 2106471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 211f7d83c1cSKees Cook select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 2126471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2136471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 214a00cc7d9SMatthew Wilcox select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64 215b64d8d1eSPeter Xu select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD 2167677f7fdSAxel Rasmussen select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD 217e37e43a4SAndy Lutomirski select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64 218fe950f60SKees Cook select HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 219c763ea26SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 2202ff2b7ecSMasahiro Yamada select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 2216471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 2226471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 22324a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER if X86_64 22424a9c541SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK if HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 2256471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 22603f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL 227280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy select HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 2284ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 2296471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 2309c5a3621SAkinobu Mita select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 231677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 23206aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 23302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS if X86_64 234762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS if X86_64 235562955feSSteven Rostedt (VMware) select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 236c316eb44SHeiko Carstens select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT if X86_64 237503e4510SHeiko Carstens select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI if X86_64 23803f5781bSWang YanQing select HAVE_EBPF_JIT 23958340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 240976ba8daSArnd Bergmann select HAVE_EISA if X86_32 2415f56a5dfSJiri Slaby select HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 24225176ad0SDavid Hildenbrand select HAVE_GUP_FAST 243644e0e8dSSteven Rostedt (VMware) select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 || DYNAMIC_FTRACE 244a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 245a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 2464a30e4c9SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if X86_32 || (X86_64 && DYNAMIC_FTRACE) 2476471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2486b90bd4bSEmese Revfy select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 2490067f129SK.Prasad select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2506471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 251624db9eaSThomas Gleixner select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 2526471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 2534ab7674fSJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2546471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 2556471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 2566471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 2576471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 2586471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 2596471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 260fb46d057SNick Terrell select HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 2616471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KPROBES 2626471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 263540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2646471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_KRETPROBES 265f3a112c0SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_RETHOOK 2666471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_LIVEPATCH if X86_64 2670102752eSFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 268ee9f8fceSJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 2699f132f7eSJoel Fernandes (Google) select HAVE_MOVE_PMD 270be37c98dSKalesh Singh select HAVE_MOVE_PUD 27122102f45SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL 27242a0bb3fSPetr Mladek select HAVE_NMI 273489e355bSJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL 27403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_OBJTOOL if X86_64 2756471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_OPTPROBES 2765394f1e9SArnd Bergmann select HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 2776471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 2786471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 279c01d4323SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 28092e5aae4SNicholas Piggin select HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 281eb01d42aSChristoph Hellwig select HAVE_PCI 282c5e63197SJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_REGS 283c5ebcedbSJiri Olsa select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 284a3725973SRik van Riel select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 2851e9fdf21SPeter Zijlstra select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 28600998085SThomas Gleixner select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK 2876471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 28803f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if UNWINDER_ORC || STACK_VALIDATION 2893c88ee19SMasami Hiramatsu select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 2907ecd19cfSKefeng Wang select HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 291cd1a41ceSThomas Gleixner select HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 2920ee2689bSBrian Gerst select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR 29303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL 294e6d6c071SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_STATIC_CALL 29503f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE if HAVE_OBJTOOL 29699cf983cSMark Rutland select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL 297d6761b8fSMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_RSEQ 29809498135SMiguel Ojeda select HAVE_RUST if X86_64 2996471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 3005f3da8c0SJosh Poimboeuf select HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL 3016471b825SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 3027c68af6eSAvi Kivity select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 3037ac87074SVincenzo Frascino select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO 30433385150SJason A. Donenfeld select VDSO_GETRANDOM if X86_64 3050c7ffa32SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_PARALLEL if SMP && X86_64 30605736e4aSThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP 3070c7ffa32SThomas Gleixner select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP if SMP && X86_32 308c0185808SThomas Gleixner select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 309c2508ec5SLinus Torvalds select LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 3107ecd19cfSKefeng Wang select NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 3117ecd19cfSKefeng Wang select NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 31286596f0aSChristoph Hellwig select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 31387482708SMike Rapoport (Microsoft) select NUMA_MEMBLKS if NUMA 3142eac9c2dSChristoph Hellwig select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI 315625210cfSSinan Kaya select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG if PCI 3166471b825SIngo Molnar select PERF_EVENTS 3173195ef59SPrarit Bhargava select RTC_LIB 318d6faca40SArnd Bergmann select RTC_MC146818_LIB 3196471b825SIngo Molnar select SPARSE_IRQ 3206471b825SIngo Molnar select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 32115f4eae7SAndy Lutomirski select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 3224aae683fSMasahiro Yamada select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 3234510bffbSMark Rutland select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 3246471b825SIngo Molnar select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 3253b02a051SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN if X86_64 3260c608dadSAubrey Li select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS 32750468e43SJarkko Sakkinen select HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP if X86_SGX 328d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B if X86_64 || X86_ALIGNMENT_16 329d49a0626SPeter Zijlstra select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 3309e2b4be3SNayna Jain imply IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI 331ceea991aSJiri Olsa select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 3324817f70cSQi Zheng select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM if X86_64 3337d8330a5SBalbir Singh 334ba7e4d13SIngo Molnarconfig INSTRUCTION_DECODER 3353120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 3363120e25eSJan Beulich depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 337ba7e4d13SIngo Molnar 33851b26adaSLinus Torvaldsconfig OUTPUT_FORMAT 33951b26adaSLinus Torvalds string 34051b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 34151b26adaSLinus Torvalds default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 34251b26adaSLinus Torvalds 3438d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 3443c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3458d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3468d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 3473c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3488d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 3503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3529e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 3539e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 28 if 64BIT 3549e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 8 3559e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 3569e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 3579e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 32 if 64BIT 3589e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 16 3599e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 3609e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 3619e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 8 3629e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 3639e08f57dSDaniel Cashmanconfig ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 3649e08f57dSDaniel Cashman default 16 3659e08f57dSDaniel Cashman 3668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 3678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 3688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3698d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 3703120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 3713120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 3728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 373d911c67eSAlexander Potapenkoconfig GENERIC_CSUM 374d911c67eSAlexander Potapenko bool 375d911c67eSAlexander Potapenko default y if KMSAN || KASAN 376d911c67eSAlexander Potapenko 3778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 3783c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 380b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 381b93a531eSJan Beulich 382b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 383b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 3848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 3863120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 3873120e25eSJan Beulich depends on ISA_DMA_API 3888d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 3891032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 3901032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 3911032c0baSSam Ravnborg 3929a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 3939a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 3948d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 395801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 396801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 397801e4062SJohannes Berg 398f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 399f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 400f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 4018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 402e0fd24a3SJan Beulich def_bool y if X86_64 4038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 404d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabininconfig KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET 405d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin hex 406d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin depends on KASAN 407d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin default 0xdffffc0000000000 408d6f2d75aSAndrey Ryabinin 40969575d38SShane Wangconfig HAVE_INTEL_TXT 41069575d38SShane Wang def_bool y 4116ea30386SKees Cook depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 41269575d38SShane Wang 4136b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 4146b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 4156b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 4166b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 4172b144498SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 4182b144498SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool y 4192b144498SSrikar Dronamraju 420d20642f0SRob Herringconfig FIX_EARLYCON_MEM 421d20642f0SRob Herring def_bool y 422d20642f0SRob Herring 42394d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemovconfig DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK 42494d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemov bool 42594d49eb3SKirill A. Shutemov 42698233368SKirill A. Shutemovconfig PGTABLE_LEVELS 42798233368SKirill A. Shutemov int 4287212b58dSKirill A. Shutemov default 5 if X86_64 42998233368SKirill A. Shutemov default 3 if X86_PAE 43098233368SKirill A. Shutemov default 2 43198233368SKirill A. Shutemov 432506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 434506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 436a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 4384a474157SRobert Graffham a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more 4394a474157SRobert Graffham than one CPU, say Y. 440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 4414a474157SRobert Graffham If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor 442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 4444a474157SRobert Graffham uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel 445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 456ff61f079SJonathan Corbet See also <file:Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst>, 4574f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab <file:Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 46206cd9a7dSYinghai Luconfig X86_X2APIC 4639232c49fSMateusz Jończyk bool "x2APIC interrupt controller architecture support" 46419e3d60dSJan Kiszka depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST) 4659232c49fSMateusz Jończyk default y 466a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4679232c49fSMateusz Jończyk x2APIC is an interrupt controller architecture, a component of which 4689232c49fSMateusz Jończyk (the local APIC) is present in the CPU. It allows faster access to 4699232c49fSMateusz Jończyk the local APIC and supports a larger number of CPUs in the system 4709232c49fSMateusz Jończyk than the predecessors. 47106cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 4729232c49fSMateusz Jończyk x2APIC was introduced in Intel CPUs around 2008 and in AMD EPYC CPUs 4739232c49fSMateusz Jończyk in 2019, but it can be disabled by the BIOS. It is also frequently 4749232c49fSMateusz Jończyk emulated in virtual machines, even when the host CPU does not support 4759232c49fSMateusz Jończyk it. Support in the CPU can be checked by executing 47699bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk grep x2apic /proc/cpuinfo 47706cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 47899bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk If this configuration option is disabled, the kernel will boot with 47999bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk very reduced functionality and performance on some platforms that 48099bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk have x2APIC enabled. On the other hand, on hardware that does not 48199bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk support x2APIC, a kernel with this option enabled will just fallback 48299bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk to older APIC implementations. 483b8d1d163SDaniel Sneddon 48499bb1bd8SMateusz Jończyk If in doubt, say Y. 48506cd9a7dSYinghai Lu 4867fec07fdSJacob Panconfig X86_POSTED_MSI 4877fec07fdSJacob Pan bool "Enable MSI and MSI-x delivery by posted interrupts" 4887fec07fdSJacob Pan depends on X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 4897fec07fdSJacob Pan help 4907fec07fdSJacob Pan This enables MSIs that are under interrupt remapping to be delivered as 4917fec07fdSJacob Pan posted interrupts to the host kernel. Interrupt throughput can 4927fec07fdSJacob Pan potentially be improved by coalescing CPU notifications during high 4937fec07fdSJacob Pan frequency bursts. 4947fec07fdSJacob Pan 4957fec07fdSJacob Pan If you don't know what to do here, say N. 4967fec07fdSJacob Pan 4976695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 4984590d98fSAndy Shevchenko bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 4997a527688SJan Beulich default y 5005ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 501a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5026695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 5036695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 5046695c85bSYinghai Lu 505e6d42931SJohannes Weinerconfig X86_CPU_RESCTRL 506e6d42931SJohannes Weiner bool "x86 CPU resource control support" 5076fe07ce3SBabu Moger depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) 508bff70402SJames Morse depends on MISC_FILESYSTEMS 509bff70402SJames Morse select ARCH_HAS_CPU_RESCTRL 510bff70402SJames Morse select RESCTRL_FS 51170288405SJames Morse select RESCTRL_FS_PSEUDO_LOCK 51278e99b4aSFenghua Yu help 513e6d42931SJohannes Weiner Enable x86 CPU resource control support. 5146fe07ce3SBabu Moger 5156fe07ce3SBabu Moger Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources 5166fe07ce3SBabu Moger usage by the CPU. 5176fe07ce3SBabu Moger 5186fe07ce3SBabu Moger Intel calls this Intel Resource Director Technology 5196fe07ce3SBabu Moger (Intel(R) RDT). More information about RDT can be found in the 5206fe07ce3SBabu Moger Intel x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual. 5216fe07ce3SBabu Moger 5226fe07ce3SBabu Moger AMD calls this AMD Platform Quality of Service (AMD QoS). 5236fe07ce3SBabu Moger More information about AMD QoS can be found in the AMD64 Technology 5246fe07ce3SBabu Moger Platform Quality of Service Extensions manual. 52578e99b4aSFenghua Yu 52678e99b4aSFenghua Yu Say N if unsure. 52778e99b4aSFenghua Yu 5282cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel)config X86_FRED 5292cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) bool "Flexible Return and Event Delivery" 5302cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) depends on X86_64 5312cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) help 5322cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) When enabled, try to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery 5332cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) instead of the legacy SYSCALL/SYSENTER/IDT architecture for 5342cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) ring transitions and exception/interrupt handling if the 5353c41786cSPaul Menzel system supports it. 5362cce9591SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) 537c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 538c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 539c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai default y 540a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 54106ac8346SIngo Molnar If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 54206ac8346SIngo Molnar standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 54306ac8346SIngo Molnar systems out there.) 54406ac8346SIngo Molnar 5458425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 54671d99ea4SMasahiro Yamada for the following non-PC x86 platforms, depending on the value of 54771d99ea4SMasahiro Yamada CONFIG_64BIT. 54871d99ea4SMasahiro Yamada 54971d99ea4SMasahiro Yamada 32-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=n): 5504047e877SMateusz Jończyk Goldfish (mostly Android emulator) 5514047e877SMateusz Jończyk Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SoC 5524047e877SMateusz Jończyk Intel Quark 5538425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai RDC R-321x SoC 55406ac8346SIngo Molnar 55571d99ea4SMasahiro Yamada 64-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=y): 55644b111b5SSteffen Persvold Numascale NumaChip 5578425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai ScaleMP vSMP 5588425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai SGI Ultraviolet 559ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann Merrifield/Moorefield MID devices 5604047e877SMateusz Jończyk Goldfish (mostly Android emulator) 5618425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai 5628425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 5638425091fSRavikiran G Thirumalai generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 56471d99ea4SMasahiro Yamada 565c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 566c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 56744b111b5SSteffen Persvoldconfig X86_NUMACHIP 56844b111b5SSteffen Persvold bool "Numascale NumaChip" 56944b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_64 57044b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 57144b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on NUMA 57244b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on SMP 57344b111b5SSteffen Persvold depends on X86_X2APIC 574f9726bfdSDaniel J Blueman depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 575a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 57644b111b5SSteffen Persvold Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 57744b111b5SSteffen Persvold enable more than ~168 cores. 57844b111b5SSteffen Persvold If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 57903b48632SNick Piggin 5806a48565eSIngo Molnarconfig X86_VSMP 581c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 5826276a074SBorislav Petkov select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 5836a48565eSIngo Molnar select PARAVIRT 5846a48565eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 585c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 586ead91d4bSShai Fultheim depends on SMP 587a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5886a48565eSIngo Molnar Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 5896a48565eSIngo Molnar supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 5906a48565eSIngo Molnar if you have one of these machines. 5916a48565eSIngo Molnar 592c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalaiconfig X86_UV 593c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 594c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_64 595c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 59654c28d29SJack Steiner depends on NUMA 5971ecb4ae5SAndrew Morton depends on EFI 598c2209ea5SIngo Molnar depends on KEXEC_CORE 5999d6c26e7SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_X2APIC 6001222e564SIngo Molnar depends on PCI 601a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 602c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 603c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 604c5c606d9SRavikiran G Thirumalai 605ca5955ddSArnd Bergmannconfig X86_INTEL_MID 606ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann bool "Intel Z34xx/Z35xx MID platform support" 607ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 608ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 609ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann depends on PCI 610ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_64 || (EXPERT && PCI_GOANY) 611ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 612ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann select I2C 613ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann select DW_APB_TIMER 614ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann select INTEL_SCU_PCI 615ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann help 616ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann Select to build a kernel capable of supporting 64-bit Intel MID 617ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann (Mobile Internet Device) platform systems which do not have 618ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann the PCI legacy interfaces. 619ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann 620ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann The only supported devices are the 22nm Merrified (Z34xx) 621ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann and Moorefield (Z35xx) SoC used in the Intel Edison board and 622ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann a small number of Android devices such as the Asus Zenfone 2, 623ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann Asus FonePad 8 and Dell Venue 7. 624ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann 625ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann If you are building for a PC class system or non-MID tablet 626ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann SoCs like Bay Trail (Z36xx/Z37xx), say N here. 627ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann 628ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which 629ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives. 630506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 631ddd70cf9SJun Nakajimaconfig X86_GOLDFISH 632ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 633cb7b8023SBen Hutchings depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 634a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 635ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 636ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 637ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima Goldfish emulator say N here. 638ddd70cf9SJun Nakajima 639ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann# Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 640ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann# Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 641ca5955ddSArnd Bergmann 642c751e17bSThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_INTEL_CE 643c751e17bSThomas Gleixner bool "CE4100 TV platform" 644c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI 645c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on PCI_GODIRECT 6466084a6e2SJiang Liu depends on X86_IO_APIC 647c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_32 648c751e17bSThomas Gleixner depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 64937bc9f50SDirk Brandewie select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 650da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF 651da6b737bSSebastian Andrzej Siewior select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 652a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 653c751e17bSThomas Gleixner Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 654c751e17bSThomas Gleixner This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 655c751e17bSThomas Gleixner boxes and media devices. 656c751e17bSThomas Gleixner 6578bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghueconfig X86_INTEL_QUARK 6588bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue bool "Intel Quark platform support" 6598bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_32 6608bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 6618bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 6628bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_TSC 6638bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on PCI 6648bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on PCI_GOANY 6658bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue depends on X86_IO_APIC 6668bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue select IOSF_MBI 6678bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue select INTEL_IMR 6689ab6eb51SAndy Shevchenko select COMMON_CLK 669a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6708bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC. 6718bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino 6728bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue compatible Intel Galileo. 6738bbc2a13SBryan O'Donoghue 674e35e328dSMateusz Jończykconfig X86_RDC321X 675e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 676e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk depends on X86_32 677e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 678e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk select M486 679e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 680e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk help 681e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 682e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk as R-8610-(G). 683e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 684e35e328dSMateusz Jończyk 6853d48aab1SMika Westerbergconfig X86_INTEL_LPSS 6863d48aab1SMika Westerberg bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 6875962dd22SSinan Kaya depends on X86 && ACPI && PCI 6883d48aab1SMika Westerberg select COMMON_CLK 6890f531431SMathias Nyman select PINCTRL 690eebb3e8dSAndy Shevchenko select IOSF_MBI 691a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6923d48aab1SMika Westerberg Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 6933d48aab1SMika Westerberg found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 6940f531431SMathias Nyman things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 6950f531431SMathias Nyman which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 6963d48aab1SMika Westerberg 69792082a88SKen Xueconfig X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE 69892082a88SKen Xue bool "AMD ACPI2Platform devices support" 69992082a88SKen Xue depends on ACPI 70092082a88SKen Xue select COMMON_CLK 70192082a88SKen Xue select PINCTRL 702a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 70392082a88SKen Xue Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device 70492082a88SKen Xue such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets. 70592082a88SKen Xue I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is 70692082a88SKen Xue implemented under PINCTRL subsystem. 70792082a88SKen Xue 708ced3ce76SDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI 709ced3ce76SDavid E. Box tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms" 710ced3ce76SDavid E. Box depends on PCI 711a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 712ced3ce76SDavid E. Box This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC 713ced3ce76SDavid E. Box platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of 714ced3ce76SDavid E. Box MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal 715ced3ce76SDavid E. Box and power. Drivers may query the availability of this device to 716ced3ce76SDavid E. Box determine if they need the sideband in order to work on these 717ced3ce76SDavid E. Box platforms. The sideband is available on the following SoC products. 718ced3ce76SDavid E. Box This list is not meant to be exclusive. 719ced3ce76SDavid E. Box - BayTrail 720ced3ce76SDavid E. Box - Braswell 721ced3ce76SDavid E. Box - Quark 722ced3ce76SDavid E. Box 723ced3ce76SDavid E. Box You should say Y if you are running a kernel on one of these SoC's. 724ced3ce76SDavid E. Box 725ed2226bdSDavid E. Boxconfig IOSF_MBI_DEBUG 726ed2226bdSDavid E. Box bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs" 727ed2226bdSDavid E. Box depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS 728a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 729ed2226bdSDavid E. Box Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR, 730ed2226bdSDavid E. Box MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from 731ed2226bdSDavid E. Box different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device 732ed2226bdSDavid E. Box state information for debug and analysis. As this is a general access 733ed2226bdSDavid E. Box mechanism, users of this option would have specific knowledge of the 734ed2226bdSDavid E. Box device they want to access. 735ed2226bdSDavid E. Box 736ed2226bdSDavid E. Box If you don't require the option or are in doubt, say N. 737ed2226bdSDavid E. Box 738d949f36fSLinus Torvaldsconfig X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 7396fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 740d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 741d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_MCE 742d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 743d949f36fSLinus Torvalds # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 744d949f36fSLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 745d949f36fSLinus Torvalds select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 746d949f36fSLinus Torvalds 74782148d1dSShérabconfig X86_32_IRIS 74882148d1dSShérab tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 74982148d1dSShérab depends on X86_32 750a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 75182148d1dSShérab The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 75282148d1dSShérab to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 75382148d1dSShérab needed to do so, which is what this module does at 75482148d1dSShérab kernel shutdown. 75582148d1dSShérab 75682148d1dSShérab This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 75782148d1dSShérab 75882148d1dSShérab If unused, say N. 75982148d1dSShérab 760ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 7613c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 763a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 764a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7726276a074SBorislav Petkovmenuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 7736276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Linux guest support" 774a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 7756276a074SBorislav Petkov Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 7766276a074SBorislav Petkov visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 7776276a074SBorislav Petkov setup. 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7796276a074SBorislav Petkov If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 7806276a074SBorislav Petkov disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 7826276a074SBorislav Petkovif HYPERVISOR_GUEST 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 784e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 785e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 786a0e2bf7cSJuergen Gross depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 787a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 788e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 789e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 790e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 791e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 792e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 793c00a280aSJuergen Grossconfig PARAVIRT_XXL 794c00a280aSJuergen Gross bool 79509230b75SKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 796c00a280aSJuergen Gross 7976276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 7986276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 7996276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 800a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 8016276a074SBorislav Petkov Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 8026276a074SBorislav Petkov a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 8036276a074SBorislav Petkov 804b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 805b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 8066ea30386SKees Cook depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 807a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 808b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 809b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 810b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 811b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 8124c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 8134c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 814b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 8154c4e4f61SRaghavendra K T If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 816b4ecc126SJeremy Fitzhardinge 817ecca2502SZhao Yakuiconfig X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 818ecca2502SZhao Yakui def_bool n 819ecca2502SZhao Yakui 8206276a074SBorislav Petkovsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 8216276a074SBorislav Petkov 8226276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig KVM_GUEST 8236276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 8246276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 8256276a074SBorislav Petkov select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 826a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL 827b1d40575SVitaly Kuznetsov select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 8286276a074SBorislav Petkov default y 829a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 8306276a074SBorislav Petkov This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 8316276a074SBorislav Petkov hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 8326276a074SBorislav Petkov of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 8336276a074SBorislav Petkov underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 8346276a074SBorislav Petkov timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 8356276a074SBorislav Petkov 836a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatticonfig ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL 837a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti def_bool n 838a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti prompt "Disable host haltpoll when loading haltpoll driver" 839a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti help 840a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti If virtualized under KVM, disable host haltpoll. 841a1c4423bSMarcelo Tosatti 8427733607fSMaran Wilsonconfig PVH 8437733607fSMaran Wilson bool "Support for running PVH guests" 844a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 8457733607fSMaran Wilson This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines 8467733607fSMaran Wilson as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI. 8477733607fSMaran Wilson 8486276a074SBorislav Petkovconfig PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 8496276a074SBorislav Petkov bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 8506276a074SBorislav Petkov depends on PARAVIRT 851a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 8526276a074SBorislav Petkov Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 8536276a074SBorislav Petkov accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 8546276a074SBorislav Petkov the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 8556276a074SBorislav Petkov that, there can be a small performance impact. 8566276a074SBorislav Petkov 8576276a074SBorislav Petkov If in doubt, say N here. 8586276a074SBorislav Petkov 8597af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 8607af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 8617af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 8624a362601SJan Kiszkaconfig JAILHOUSE_GUEST 8634a362601SJan Kiszka bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support" 864abde587bSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_64 && PCI 86587e65d05SJan Kiszka select X86_PM_TIMER 866a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 8674a362601SJan Kiszka This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root 8684a362601SJan Kiszka cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start 8694a362601SJan Kiszka Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell. 8704a362601SJan Kiszka 871ec7972c9SZhao Yakuiconfig ACRN_GUEST 872ec7972c9SZhao Yakui bool "ACRN Guest support" 873ec7972c9SZhao Yakui depends on X86_64 874498ad393SZhao Yakui select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 875ec7972c9SZhao Yakui help 876ec7972c9SZhao Yakui This option allows to run Linux as guest in the ACRN hypervisor. ACRN is 877ec7972c9SZhao Yakui a flexible, lightweight reference open-source hypervisor, built with 878ec7972c9SZhao Yakui real-time and safety-criticality in mind. It is built for embedded 879ec7972c9SZhao Yakui IOT with small footprint and real-time features. More details can be 880ec7972c9SZhao Yakui found in https://projectacrn.org/. 881ec7972c9SZhao Yakui 882*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouseconfig BHYVE_GUEST 883*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse bool "Bhyve (BSD Hypervisor) Guest support" 884*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse depends on X86_64 885*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse help 886*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse This option allows to run Linux to recognise when it is running as a 887*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse guest in the Bhyve hypervisor, and to support more than 255 vCPUs when 888*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse when doing so. More details about Bhyve can be found at https://bhyve.org 889*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse and https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/. 890*fa1d1171SDavid Woodhouse 89159bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayananconfig INTEL_TDX_GUEST 89259bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan bool "Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) - Guest Support" 89359bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL 89459bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan depends on X86_X2APIC 89575d090fdSKirill A. Shutemov depends on EFI_STUB 8969f98a4f4SVishal Annapurve depends on PARAVIRT 89741394e33SKirill A. Shutemov select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 898968b4931SKirill A. Shutemov select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT 89977a512e3SSean Christopherson select X86_MCE 90075d090fdSKirill A. Shutemov select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY 90159bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan help 90259bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan Support running as a guest under Intel TDX. Without this support, 90359bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan the guest kernel can not boot or run under TDX. 90459bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan TDX includes memory encryption and integrity capabilities 90559bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan which protect the confidentiality and integrity of guest 90659bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan memory contents and CPU state. TDX guests are protected from 90759bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan some attacks from the VMM. 90859bd54a8SKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 9096276a074SBorislav Petkovendif # HYPERVISOR_GUEST 91097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 9143c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 916a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 9234e7f9df2SMichael S. Tsirkin as it is off-chip. The interface used is documented 9244e7f9df2SMichael S. Tsirkin in the HPET spec, revision 1. 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 9333c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 9343228e1dcSAnand K Mistry depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9366a108a14SDavid Rientjes# Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 9387ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 9397ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 940cf074402SArd Biesheuvel select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK 9416a108a14SDavid Rientjes bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 942a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 9437ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 9447ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 9457ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 9467ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 9477ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 94938901f1cSAndi Kleen bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 950a4ce5a48SChristoph Hellwig select IOMMU_HELPER 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 95223ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmann depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 953a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 954ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 955ced3c42cSIngo Molnar GART based hardware IOMMUs. 956ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 957ced3c42cSIngo Molnar The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 958ced3c42cSIngo Molnar limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 959ced3c42cSIngo Molnar for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 960ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 961ced3c42cSIngo Molnar Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 962ced3c42cSIngo Molnar the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 963ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 964ced3c42cSIngo Molnar In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 965ced3c42cSIngo Molnar there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 966ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 32-bit limited device. 967ced3c42cSIngo Molnar 968ced3c42cSIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 9708b766b0fSMichal Suchanekconfig BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT 9718b766b0fSMichal Suchanek bool 9728b766b0fSMichal Suchanek help 9738b766b0fSMichal Suchanek If true, at least one selected framebuffer driver can take advantage 9748b766b0fSMichal Suchanek of VESA video modes set at an early boot stage via the vga= parameter. 9758b766b0fSMichal Suchanek 9761184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 977ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 9786ea30386SKees Cook depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 97936f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 980a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 981ddb0c5a6SSamuel Thibault Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 9821184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 984aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 985aec6487eSIngo Molnar# The maximum number of CPUs supported: 986aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 987aec6487eSIngo Molnar# The main config value is NR_CPUS, which defaults to NR_CPUS_DEFAULT, 988aec6487eSIngo Molnar# and which can be configured interactively in the 989aec6487eSIngo Molnar# [NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN ... NR_CPUS_RANGE_END] range. 990aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 991aec6487eSIngo Molnar# The ranges are different on 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, depending on 992aec6487eSIngo Molnar# hardware capabilities and scalability features of the kernel. 993aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 994aec6487eSIngo Molnar# ( If MAXSMP is enabled we just use the highest possible value and disable 995aec6487eSIngo Molnar# interactive configuration. ) 996aec6487eSIngo Molnar# 997a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 998aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN 999a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap int 1000aec6487eSIngo Molnar default NR_CPUS_RANGE_END if MAXSMP 1001a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 1 if !SMP 1002a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 2 1003a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 1004aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 1005a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap int 1006a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap depends on X86_32 10070abf5086SArnd Bergmann default 8 if SMP 1008a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 1 if !SMP 1009a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 1010aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 1011a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap int 1012a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap depends on X86_64 10131edae1aeSScott Wood default 8192 if SMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 10141edae1aeSScott Wood default 512 if SMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 1015a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 1 if !SMP 1016aec6487eSIngo Molnar 1017aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 1018aec6487eSIngo Molnar int 1019aec6487eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 1020aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 8 if SMP 1021aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 1 if !SMP 1022aec6487eSIngo Molnar 1023aec6487eSIngo Molnarconfig NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 1024aec6487eSIngo Molnar int 1025aec6487eSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 1026a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 8192 if MAXSMP 1027a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap default 64 if SMP 1028aec6487eSIngo Molnar default 1 if !SMP 1029a0d0bb4dSRandy Dunlap 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 103136f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 1032aec6487eSIngo Molnar range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 1033aec6487eSIngo Molnar default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 1034a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1035506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 1036bb61ccc7SJosh Boyer kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 1037cad14bb9SKirill A. Shutemov supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 1038506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1040aec6487eSIngo Molnar This is purely to save memory: each supported CPU adds about 8KB 1041aec6487eSIngo Molnar to the kernel image. 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 104366558b73STim Chenconfig SCHED_CLUSTER 104466558b73STim Chen bool "Cluster scheduler support" 104566558b73STim Chen depends on SMP 104666558b73STim Chen default y 104766558b73STim Chen help 104866558b73STim Chen Cluster scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 104966558b73STim Chen making when dealing with machines that have clusters of CPUs. 105066558b73STim Chen Cluster usually means a couple of CPUs which are placed closely 105166558b73STim Chen by sharing mid-level caches, last-level cache tags or internal 105266558b73STim Chen busses. 105366558b73STim Chen 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 1055dbe73364SThomas Gleixner def_bool y if SMP 1056506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1057506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 10583c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 1060c8e56d20SBorislav Petkov depends on SMP 1061a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1066de966cf4STim Chenconfig SCHED_MC_PRIO 1067de966cf4STim Chen bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support" 10683598e577SMeng Li depends on SCHED_MC 10693598e577SMeng Li select X86_INTEL_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_INTEL 10703598e577SMeng Li select X86_AMD_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_AMD && ACPI 10710a21fc12SIngo Molnar select CPU_FREQ 1072de966cf4STim Chen default y 1073a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1074de966cf4STim Chen Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a 1075de966cf4STim Chen core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows 1076de966cf4STim Chen certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running 1077de966cf4STim Chen single threaded workloads) than others. 1078de966cf4STim Chen 1079de966cf4STim Chen Enabling this kernel feature teaches the scheduler about 1080de966cf4STim Chen the TBM3 (aka ITMT) priority order of the CPU cores and adjusts the 1081de966cf4STim Chen scheduler's CPU selection logic accordingly, so that higher 1082de966cf4STim Chen overall system performance can be achieved. 1083de966cf4STim Chen 1084de966cf4STim Chen This feature will have no effect on CPUs without this feature. 1085de966cf4STim Chen 1086de966cf4STim Chen If unsure say Y here. 10875e76b2abSTim Chen 108830b8b006SThomas Gleixnerconfig UP_LATE_INIT 108930b8b006SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 1090ba360f88SThomas Gleixner depends on !SMP && X86_LOCAL_APIC 109130b8b006SThomas Gleixner 1092506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 109350849eefSJan Beulich bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI 109450849eefSJan Beulich default PCI_MSI 1095dcbb01fbSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_32 && !SMP 1096a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 1099506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 1100506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 1101506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 1104506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 1108506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 1109a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 1112506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 1116506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 11193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1120dcbb01fbSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 1121b5dc8e6cSJiang Liu select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11232b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemovconfig ACPI_MADT_WAKEUP 11242b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemov def_bool y 11252b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 11262b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemov depends on ACPI 11272b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemov depends on SMP 11282b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 11292b5e22afSKirill A. Shutemov 1130506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 1131b1da1e71SJan Beulich def_bool y 1132b1da1e71SJan Beulich depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_UP_IOAPIC 1133506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 113441b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 113541b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 113641b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 1137a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 113841b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 113941b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 114041b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 114141b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 114241b9eb26SStefan Assmann 114341b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 114441b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 114541b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 114641b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 114741b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 114841b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 114941b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 115041b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 115141b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 115241b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 115341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 115441b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 115541b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 115641b9eb26SStefan Assmann 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 1158bab9bc65SAndi Kleen bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 1159648ed940SChen, Gong select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR 1160e57dbaf7SBorislav Petkov default y 1161a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1162bab9bc65SAndi Kleen Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 1163bab9bc65SAndi Kleen kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 1164506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 1165bab9bc65SAndi Kleen ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 11664efc0670SAndi Kleen 11675de97c9fSTony Luckconfig X86_MCELOG_LEGACY 11685de97c9fSTony Luck bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device" 11695de97c9fSTony Luck depends on X86_MCE 1170a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 11715de97c9fSTony Luck Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog 11725de97c9fSTony Luck userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation 11735de97c9fSTony Luck rasdaemon solution. 11745de97c9fSTony Luck 1175506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 11763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11773c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 1178c1ebf835SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 1179a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1180506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 1181506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 1182506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1183506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 11843c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 11853c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 1186d35fb312SYazen Ghannam depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 1187a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1188506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 1189506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 1190506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11914efc0670SAndi Kleenconfig X86_ANCIENT_MCE 11926fc108a0SJan Beulich bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 1193c31d9633SAndi Kleen depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 1194a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 11954efc0670SAndi Kleen Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 11965065a706SMasanari Iida systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command 11974efc0670SAndi Kleen line. 11984efc0670SAndi Kleen 1199b2762686SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 1200b2762686SAndi Kleen depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 12016fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 1202b2762686SAndi Kleen 1203ea149b36SAndi Kleenconfig X86_MCE_INJECT 1204bc8e80d5SBorislav Petkov depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS 1205ea149b36SAndi Kleen tristate "Machine check injector support" 1206a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1207ea149b36SAndi Kleen Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 1208ea149b36SAndi Kleen If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 1209ea149b36SAndi Kleen QA it is safe to say n. 1210ea149b36SAndi Kleen 121107dc900eSPeter Zijlstrasource "arch/x86/events/Kconfig" 1212e633c65aSKan Liang 12135aef51c3SAndy Lutomirskiconfig X86_LEGACY_VM86 12141e642812SIngo Molnar bool "Legacy VM86 support" 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1216a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 12175aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086 12185aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode. 12195aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 12205aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski Some very old versions of X and/or vbetool require this option 12215aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski for user mode setting. Similarly, DOSEMU will use it if 12225aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski available to accelerate real mode DOS programs. However, any 12235aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski recent version of DOSEMU, X, or vbetool should be fully 12245aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski functional even without kernel VM86 support, as they will all 12251e642812SIngo Molnar fall back to software emulation. Nevertheless, if you are using 12261e642812SIngo Molnar a 16-bit DOS program where 16-bit performance matters, vm86 12271e642812SIngo Molnar mode might be faster than emulation and you might want to 12281e642812SIngo Molnar enable this option. 12295aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 12301e642812SIngo Molnar Note that any app that works on a 64-bit kernel is unlikely to 12311e642812SIngo Molnar need this option, as 64-bit kernels don't, and can't, support 12321e642812SIngo Molnar V8086 mode. This option is also unrelated to 16-bit protected 12331e642812SIngo Molnar mode and is not needed to run most 16-bit programs under Wine. 12345aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 12351e642812SIngo Molnar Enabling this option increases the complexity of the kernel 12361e642812SIngo Molnar and slows down exception handling a tiny bit. 12375aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 12381e642812SIngo Molnar If unsure, say N here. 12395aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski 12405aef51c3SAndy Lutomirskiconfig VM86 12415aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski bool 12425aef51c3SAndy Lutomirski default X86_LEGACY_VM86 124334273f41SH. Peter Anvin 124434273f41SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_16BIT 124534273f41SH. Peter Anvin bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT 124634273f41SH. Peter Anvin default y 1247a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 1248a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 124934273f41SH. Peter Anvin This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit 125034273f41SH. Peter Anvin protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling 125134273f41SH. Peter Anvin this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text 125234273f41SH. Peter Anvin plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64, 125334273f41SH. Peter Anvin 125434273f41SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_ESPFIX32 125534273f41SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 125634273f41SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_16BIT && X86_32 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1258197725deSH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_ESPFIX64 1259197725deSH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 126034273f41SH. Peter Anvin depends on X86_16BIT && X86_64 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12621ad83c85SAndy Lutomirskiconfig X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION 12631ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT 12641ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski default y 12651ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski depends on X86_64 1266a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 12671ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling 12681ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except 12691ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program 12701ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski tries to use a vsyscall. With this option set to N, offending 12711ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski programs will just segfault, citing addresses of the form 12721ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 0xffffffffff600?00. 12731ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 12741ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski This option is required by many programs built before 2013, and 12751ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski care should be used even with newer programs if set to N. 12761ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 12771ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski Disabling this option saves about 7K of kernel size and 12781ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski possibly 4K of additional runtime pagetable memory. 12791ad83c85SAndy Lutomirski 1280111e7b15SThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_IOPL_IOPERM 1281111e7b15SThomas Gleixner bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation" 1282a24ca997SThomas Gleixner default y 1283a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1284111e7b15SThomas Gleixner This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary 1285111e7b15SThomas Gleixner for legacy applications. 1286111e7b15SThomas Gleixner 1287c8137aceSThomas Gleixner Legacy IOPL support is an overbroad mechanism which allows user 1288c8137aceSThomas Gleixner space aside of accessing all 65536 I/O ports also to disable 1289c8137aceSThomas Gleixner interrupts. To gain this access the caller needs CAP_SYS_RAWIO 1290c8137aceSThomas Gleixner capabilities and permission from potentially active security 1291c8137aceSThomas Gleixner modules. 1292c8137aceSThomas Gleixner 1293c8137aceSThomas Gleixner The emulation restricts the functionality of the syscall to 1294c8137aceSThomas Gleixner only allowing the full range I/O port access, but prevents the 1295a24ca997SThomas Gleixner ability to disable interrupts from user space which would be 1296a24ca997SThomas Gleixner granted if the hardware IOPL mechanism would be used. 1297c8137aceSThomas Gleixner 1298506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 1299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 1300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1301a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 1303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 1304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 1305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 1306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1307506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 1308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 1309506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 1310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 1312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1314506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 13159ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 13169ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 1317a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1318506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 1320506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 1323506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1324506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 13255e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 1326506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1327506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 1328506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1331506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 1332e6bcfdd7SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 133380030e3dSBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 133450cef76dSBorislav Petkov (AMD) select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 if CPU_SUP_AMD 133580cc9f10SPeter Oruba 1336fdbd4381SThomas Gleixnerconfig MICROCODE_INITRD32 1337fdbd4381SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 1338fdbd4381SThomas Gleixner depends on MICROCODE && X86_32 && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1339fdbd4381SThomas Gleixner 1340a77a94f8SBorislav Petkovconfig MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING 1341a77a94f8SBorislav Petkov bool "Late microcode loading (DANGEROUS)" 1342c02f48e0SBorislav Petkov default n 1343634ac23aSThomas Gleixner depends on MICROCODE && SMP 1344a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1345a77a94f8SBorislav Petkov Loading microcode late, when the system is up and executing instructions 1346a77a94f8SBorislav Petkov is a tricky business and should be avoided if possible. Just the sequence 1347a77a94f8SBorislav Petkov of synchronizing all cores and SMT threads is one fragile dance which does 1348a77a94f8SBorislav Petkov not guarantee that cores might not softlock after the loading. Therefore, 13499407bda8SThomas Gleixner use this at your own risk. Late loading taints the kernel unless the 13509407bda8SThomas Gleixner microcode header indicates that it is safe for late loading via the 13519407bda8SThomas Gleixner minimal revision check. This minimal revision check can be enforced on 13529407bda8SThomas Gleixner the kernel command line with "microcode.minrev=Y". 13539407bda8SThomas Gleixner 13549407bda8SThomas Gleixnerconfig MICROCODE_LATE_FORCE_MINREV 13559407bda8SThomas Gleixner bool "Enforce late microcode loading minimal revision check" 13569407bda8SThomas Gleixner default n 13579407bda8SThomas Gleixner depends on MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING 13589407bda8SThomas Gleixner help 13599407bda8SThomas Gleixner To prevent that users load microcode late which modifies already 13609407bda8SThomas Gleixner in use features, newer microcode patches have a minimum revision field 13619407bda8SThomas Gleixner in the microcode header, which tells the kernel which minimum 13629407bda8SThomas Gleixner revision must be active in the CPU to safely load that new microcode 13639407bda8SThomas Gleixner late into the running system. If disabled the check will not 13649407bda8SThomas Gleixner be enforced but the kernel will be tainted when the minimal 13659407bda8SThomas Gleixner revision check fails. 13669407bda8SThomas Gleixner 13679407bda8SThomas Gleixner This minimal revision check can also be controlled via the 13689407bda8SThomas Gleixner "microcode.minrev" parameter on the kernel command line. 13699407bda8SThomas Gleixner 13709407bda8SThomas Gleixner If unsure say Y. 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 1374a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 1383a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1389bbeb69ceSArnd Bergmannconfig HIGHMEM4G 1390bbeb69ceSArnd Bergmann bool "High Memory Support" 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1392a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1393bbeb69ceSArnd Bergmann Linux can use up to 4 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 1407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1409bbeb69ceSArnd Bergmann answer "Y" here. 1410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1411bbeb69ceSArnd Bergmann If unsure, say N. 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 14146a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1417a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 1457bbeb69ceSArnd Bergmann def_bool HIGHMEM4G 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 14609ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 146188a2b4edSArnd Bergmann depends on X86_32 && X86_HAVE_PAE 1462d4a451d5SChristoph Hellwig select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1463a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 146910971ab2SIngo Molnarconfig X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES 1470e5008abeSLuis R. Rodriguez def_bool y 14712e1da13fSVlastimil Babka depends on X86_64 1472a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 147310971ab2SIngo Molnar Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel 147410971ab2SIngo Molnar linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise 147510971ab2SIngo Molnar supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing 147610971ab2SIngo Molnar that we have them enabled. 14779e899816SNick Piggin 14785c280cf6SThomas Gleixnerconfig X86_CPA_STATISTICS 14795c280cf6SThomas Gleixner bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute" 14805c280cf6SThomas Gleixner depends on DEBUG_FS 1481a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1482b75baaf3SIngo Molnar Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which 1483a943245aSColin Ian King helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge 14845c280cf6SThomas Gleixner page mappings when mapping protections are changed. 14855c280cf6SThomas Gleixner 148620f07a04SKirill A. Shutemovconfig X86_MEM_ENCRYPT 148720f07a04SKirill A. Shutemov select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED 148820f07a04SKirill A. Shutemov select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK 148920f07a04SKirill A. Shutemov def_bool n 149020f07a04SKirill A. Shutemov 14917744ccdbSTom Lendackyconfig AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT 14927744ccdbSTom Lendacky bool "AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support" 14937744ccdbSTom Lendacky depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_AMD 14946c321179STom Lendacky depends on EFI_STUB 149582fef0adSDavid Rientjes select DMA_COHERENT_POOL 1496ce9084baSArd Biesheuvel select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1497597cfe48SJoerg Roedel select INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1498aa5a4611STom Lendacky select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 149920f07a04SKirill A. Shutemov select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT 15006c321179STom Lendacky select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY 1501c5529418SNikunj A Dadhania select CRYPTO_LIB_AESGCM 1502a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15037744ccdbSTom Lendacky Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory. 15047744ccdbSTom Lendacky This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory 15057744ccdbSTom Lendacky Encryption (SME). 15067744ccdbSTom Lendacky 1507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1508506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1509e133f6eaSRandy Dunlap bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 15110abf5086SArnd Bergmann depends on X86_64 15127ecd19cfSKefeng Wang select USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 15130c436a58SSaurabh Sengar select OF_NUMA if OF 1514a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1515e133f6eaSRandy Dunlap Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support. 1516fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1521c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1522fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1523fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1524fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1525506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1526eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeldconfig AMD_NUMA 15273c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15283c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 15295da0ef9aSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 1530a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1531eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1532eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1533eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1534eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1535eec1d4faSHans Rosenfeld which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1537506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 15383c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15393c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 1542a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1545506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1546d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 154751591e31SDavid Rientjes range 1 10 154851591e31SDavid Rientjes default "10" if MAXSMP 1549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1551a9ee6cf5SMike Rapoport depends on NUMA 1552a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15531184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1554692105b8SMatt LaPlante system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1556506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 15583b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1560506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1564cba5d9b3SKirill A. Shutemov select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP if X86_64 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15663b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 15676ad57f7fSMike Rapoport def_bool X86_64 || (NUMA && X86_32) 15683b16651fSTejun Heo 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 15714eda2bc3SDavid Hildenbrand depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE && ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1573506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1574a0842b70SToshi Kani bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 15755c11f00bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1576a0842b70SToshi Kani help 1577a0842b70SToshi Kani This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1578cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1579a0842b70SToshi Kani If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1580506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 15813b16651fSTejun Heoconfig ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 15823b16651fSTejun Heo def_bool y 15833b16651fSTejun Heo depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 15843b16651fSTejun Heo 1585a29815a3SAvi Kivityconfig ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1586a29815a3SAvi Kivity hex 1587a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0 if X86_32 1588a29815a3SAvi Kivity default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1589a29815a3SAvi Kivity 15907a67832cSDan Williamsconfig X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE 15917a67832cSDan Williams bool 15927a67832cSDan Williams 1593ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwigconfig X86_PMEM_LEGACY 15947a67832cSDan Williams tristate "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory" 15959f53f9faSDan Williams depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 15969f53f9faSDan Williams depends on BLK_DEV 15977a67832cSDan Williams select X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE 15987b27a862SDan Williams select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 15999f53f9faSDan Williams select LIBNVDIMM 1600ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig help 1601ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig Treat memory marked using the non-standard e820 type of 12 as used 1602ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig by the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP reference BIOS as protected memory. 1603ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig The kernel will offer these regions to the 'pmem' driver so 1604ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig they can be used for persistent storage. 1605ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig 1606ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig Say Y if unsure. 1607ec776ef6SChristoph Hellwig 16089f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 16099f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 1610a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 16119f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 16129f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 16139f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 16149f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 16159f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 16169f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 16179f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 16188c27ceffSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst to adjust this. 16199f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 16209f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 16219f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 16229f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 16239f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 16249f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 16259f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 16269f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 16279f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 16289f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 16299f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1630c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1631c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1632c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1633c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 1634a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1635c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1636c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1637c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1638506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1640a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 164187d6021bSArnd Bergmann prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN) 1642a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1643506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1645506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1652506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1653506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1654506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1655506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1661506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1663506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1665506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 16666fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 16676a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1668a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1676506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1688506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1689506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1690506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1692506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1693506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1694506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1696506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1697506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1698ff61f079SJonathan Corbet See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/mtrr.rst> for more information. 1699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 170095ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 17012ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 170295ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 170395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 1704a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1705aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1706aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 170795ffa243SYinghai Lu 1708aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1709692105b8SMatt LaPlante The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1710aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 171195ffa243SYinghai Lu 17122ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 171395ffa243SYinghai Lu 171495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1715f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1716f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1717f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 171895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 1719a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1720f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 172195ffa243SYinghai Lu 172212031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 172312031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 172412031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 172512031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 172612031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 1727a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 172812031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1729aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 173012031a62SYinghai Lu 17312e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 17326fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 17336a108a14SDavid Rientjes prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 17342a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 17357a87225aSMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) select ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1736a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 17372e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1738042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 17392e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 17402e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 17412e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 17422e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1743042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 17442e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 17452e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 17462e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1747b971880fSBabu Mogerconfig X86_UMIP 1748796ebc81SRicardo Neri def_bool y 1749b971880fSBabu Moger prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT 1750a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1751b971880fSBabu Moger User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in 1752b971880fSBabu Moger some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is 1753b971880fSBabu Moger issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are 1754b971880fSBabu Moger executed in user mode. These instructions unnecessarily expose 1755b971880fSBabu Moger information about the hardware state. 1756796ebc81SRicardo Neri 1757796ebc81SRicardo Neri The vast majority of applications do not use these instructions. 1758796ebc81SRicardo Neri For the very few that do, software emulation is provided in 1759796ebc81SRicardo Neri specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated 1760796ebc81SRicardo Neri results are dummy. 1761aa35f896SRicardo Neri 1762156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstraconfig CC_HAS_IBT 1763156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra # GCC >= 9 and binutils >= 2.29 1764156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra # Retpoline check to work around https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93654 1765156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra # Clang/LLVM >= 14 1766262448f3SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e0b89df2e0f0130881bf6c39bf31d7f6aac00e0f 1767262448f3SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dfcf69770bc522b9e411c66454934a37c1f35332 1768156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || \ 1769262448f3SNathan Chancellor (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \ 1770156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra $(as-instr,endbr64) 1771156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra 177218e66b69SRick Edgecombeconfig X86_CET 177318e66b69SRick Edgecombe def_bool n 177418e66b69SRick Edgecombe help 177518e66b69SRick Edgecombe CET features configured (Shadow stack or IBT) 177618e66b69SRick Edgecombe 1777156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstraconfig X86_KERNEL_IBT 1778156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking" 17794fd5f70cSKees Cook def_bool y 178003f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && HAVE_OBJTOOL 1781f6a2c2b2SNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f 1782f6a2c2b2SNathan Chancellor depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000 178303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 178418e66b69SRick Edgecombe select X86_CET 1785156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra help 1786156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra Build the kernel with support for Indirect Branch Tracking, a 1787156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra hardware support course-grain forward-edge Control Flow Integrity 1788156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra protection. It enforces that all indirect calls must land on 1789156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra an ENDBR instruction, as such, the compiler will instrument the 1790156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra code with them to make this happen. 1791156ff4a5SPeter Zijlstra 1792ed53a0d9SPeter Zijlstra In addition to building the kernel with IBT, seal all functions that 17934cdfc11bSNur Hussein are not indirect call targets, avoiding them ever becoming one. 1794ed53a0d9SPeter Zijlstra 1795ed53a0d9SPeter Zijlstra This requires LTO like objtool runs and will slow down the build. It 1796ed53a0d9SPeter Zijlstra does significantly reduce the number of ENDBR instructions in the 1797ed53a0d9SPeter Zijlstra kernel image. 1798ed53a0d9SPeter Zijlstra 179935e97790SDave Hansenconfig X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS 180038f3e775SBabu Moger prompt "Memory Protection Keys" 180135e97790SDave Hansen def_bool y 1802284244a9SDave Hansen # Note: only available in 64-bit mode 180338f3e775SBabu Moger depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) 180452c8e601SIngo Molnar select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 180552c8e601SIngo Molnar select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1806a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1807284244a9SDave Hansen Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing 1808284244a9SDave Hansen page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the 1809284244a9SDave Hansen page tables when an application changes protection domains. 1810284244a9SDave Hansen 18111eecbcdcSMauro Carvalho Chehab For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst 1812284244a9SDave Hansen 1813284244a9SDave Hansen If unsure, say y. 181435e97790SDave Hansen 18155626f8d4SJoey Goulyconfig ARCH_PKEY_BITS 18165626f8d4SJoey Gouly int 18175626f8d4SJoey Gouly default 4 18185626f8d4SJoey Gouly 1819db616173SMichal Hockochoice 1820db616173SMichal Hocko prompt "TSX enable mode" 1821db616173SMichal Hocko depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 1822db616173SMichal Hocko default X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF 1823db616173SMichal Hocko help 1824db616173SMichal Hocko Intel's TSX (Transactional Synchronization Extensions) feature 1825db616173SMichal Hocko allows to optimize locking protocols through lock elision which 1826db616173SMichal Hocko can lead to a noticeable performance boost. 1827db616173SMichal Hocko 1828db616173SMichal Hocko On the other hand it has been shown that TSX can be exploited 1829db616173SMichal Hocko to form side channel attacks (e.g. TAA) and chances are there 1830db616173SMichal Hocko will be more of those attacks discovered in the future. 1831db616173SMichal Hocko 1832db616173SMichal Hocko Therefore TSX is not enabled by default (aka tsx=off). An admin 1833db616173SMichal Hocko might override this decision by tsx=on the command line parameter. 1834db616173SMichal Hocko Even with TSX enabled, the kernel will attempt to enable the best 1835db616173SMichal Hocko possible TAA mitigation setting depending on the microcode available 1836db616173SMichal Hocko for the particular machine. 1837db616173SMichal Hocko 1838db616173SMichal Hocko This option allows to set the default tsx mode between tsx=on, =off 1839db616173SMichal Hocko and =auto. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more 1840db616173SMichal Hocko details. 1841db616173SMichal Hocko 1842db616173SMichal Hocko Say off if not sure, auto if TSX is in use but it should be used on safe 1843db616173SMichal Hocko platforms or on if TSX is in use and the security aspect of tsx is not 1844db616173SMichal Hocko relevant. 1845db616173SMichal Hocko 1846db616173SMichal Hockoconfig X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF 1847db616173SMichal Hocko bool "off" 1848db616173SMichal Hocko help 1849db616173SMichal Hocko TSX is disabled if possible - equals to tsx=off command line parameter. 1850db616173SMichal Hocko 1851db616173SMichal Hockoconfig X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON 1852db616173SMichal Hocko bool "on" 1853db616173SMichal Hocko help 1854db616173SMichal Hocko TSX is always enabled on TSX capable HW - equals the tsx=on command 1855db616173SMichal Hocko line parameter. 1856db616173SMichal Hocko 1857db616173SMichal Hockoconfig X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO 1858db616173SMichal Hocko bool "auto" 1859db616173SMichal Hocko help 1860db616173SMichal Hocko TSX is enabled on TSX capable HW that is believed to be safe against 1861db616173SMichal Hocko side channel attacks- equals the tsx=auto command line parameter. 1862db616173SMichal Hockoendchoice 1863db616173SMichal Hocko 1864e7e05452SSean Christophersonconfig X86_SGX 1865e7e05452SSean Christopherson bool "Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)" 1866b8d1d163SDaniel Sneddon depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_X2APIC 1867e59236b5SEric Biggers select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 1868e7e05452SSean Christopherson select MMU_NOTIFIER 1869901ddbb9SJarkko Sakkinen select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 187040e0e784STony Luck select XARRAY_MULTI 1871e7e05452SSean Christopherson help 1872e7e05452SSean Christopherson Intel(R) Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions 1873e7e05452SSean Christopherson that can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code 1874e7e05452SSean Christopherson and data, referred to as enclaves. An enclave's private memory can 1875e7e05452SSean Christopherson only be accessed by code running within the enclave. Accesses from 1876e7e05452SSean Christopherson outside the enclave, including other enclaves, are disallowed by 1877e7e05452SSean Christopherson hardware. 1878e7e05452SSean Christopherson 1879e7e05452SSean Christopherson If unsure, say N. 1880e7e05452SSean Christopherson 188118e66b69SRick Edgecombeconfig X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK 188218e66b69SRick Edgecombe bool "X86 userspace shadow stack" 188318e66b69SRick Edgecombe depends on AS_WRUSS 188418e66b69SRick Edgecombe depends on X86_64 188518e66b69SRick Edgecombe select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1886bcc9d04eSMark Brown select ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK 188718e66b69SRick Edgecombe select X86_CET 188818e66b69SRick Edgecombe help 188918e66b69SRick Edgecombe Shadow stack protection is a hardware feature that detects function 189018e66b69SRick Edgecombe return address corruption. This helps mitigate ROP attacks. 189118e66b69SRick Edgecombe Applications must be enabled to use it, and old userspace does not 189218e66b69SRick Edgecombe get protection "for free". 189318e66b69SRick Edgecombe 189418e66b69SRick Edgecombe CPUs supporting shadow stacks were first released in 2020. 189518e66b69SRick Edgecombe 189654acee60SDave Hansen See Documentation/arch/x86/shstk.rst for more information. 189718e66b69SRick Edgecombe 189818e66b69SRick Edgecombe If unsure, say N. 189918e66b69SRick Edgecombe 1900c33621b4SKai Huangconfig INTEL_TDX_HOST 1901c33621b4SKai Huang bool "Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) host support" 1902c33621b4SKai Huang depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 1903c33621b4SKai Huang depends on X86_64 1904c33621b4SKai Huang depends on KVM_INTEL 19053115cabdSKai Huang depends on X86_X2APIC 1906abe8dbabSKai Huang select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1907ac3a2208SKai Huang depends on CONTIG_ALLOC 1908cb8eb06dSDave Hansen depends on !KEXEC_CORE 190983e1bdc9SKai Huang depends on X86_MCE 1910c33621b4SKai Huang help 1911c33621b4SKai Huang Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious 1912c33621b4SKai Huang host and certain physical attacks. This option enables necessary TDX 1913c33621b4SKai Huang support in the host kernel to run confidential VMs. 1914c33621b4SKai Huang 1915c33621b4SKai Huang If unsure, say N. 1916c33621b4SKai Huang 1917506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 19189ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 19195b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1920f6ce5002SSergey Vlasov select UCS2_STRING 1921022ee6c5SArd Biesheuvel select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS 19221ff2fc02STom Lendacky select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1923aba7e066SArd Biesheuvel select EFI_RUNTIME_MAP if KEXEC_CORE 1924a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 19258b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 19288b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 19298b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 19308b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 19318b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 19328b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 19338b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1935291f3632SMatt Flemingconfig EFI_STUB 1936291f3632SMatt Fleming bool "EFI stub support" 1937c6dbd3e5SPeter Zijlstra depends on EFI 19387b2a583aSMatt Fleming select RELOCATABLE 1939a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1940291f3632SMatt Fleming This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 1941291f3632SMatt Fleming by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 1942291f3632SMatt Fleming 19434f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst for more information. 19440c759662SMatt Fleming 1945cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvelconfig EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL 1946cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel bool "EFI handover protocol (DEPRECATED)" 1947cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel depends on EFI_STUB 1948cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel default y 1949cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel help 1950cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel Select this in order to include support for the deprecated EFI 1951cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel handover protocol, which defines alternative entry points into the 1952cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel EFI stub. This is a practice that has no basis in the UEFI 1953cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel specification, and requires a priori knowledge on the part of the 1954cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel bootloader about Linux/x86 specific ways of passing the command line 1955cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel and initrd, and where in memory those assets may be loaded. 1956cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel 1957cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel If in doubt, say Y. Even though the corresponding support is not 1958cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel present in upstream GRUB or other bootloaders, most distros build 1959cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel GRUB with numerous downstream patches applied, and may rely on the 1960cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel handover protocol as as result. 1961cc3fdda2SArd Biesheuvel 19627d453eeeSMatt Flemingconfig EFI_MIXED 19637d453eeeSMatt Fleming bool "EFI mixed-mode support" 19647d453eeeSMatt Fleming depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64 1965a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 19667d453eeeSMatt Fleming Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted 19677d453eeeSMatt Fleming on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit 19687d453eeeSMatt Fleming mode. 19697d453eeeSMatt Fleming 19707d453eeeSMatt Fleming Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled 19717d453eeeSMatt Fleming kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports 19727d453eeeSMatt Fleming the EFI handover protocol must be used. 19737d453eeeSMatt Fleming 19747d453eeeSMatt Fleming If unsure, say N. 19757d453eeeSMatt Fleming 19761fff234dSArd Biesheuvelconfig EFI_RUNTIME_MAP 19771fff234dSArd Biesheuvel bool "Export EFI runtime maps to sysfs" if EXPERT 19781fff234dSArd Biesheuvel depends on EFI 19791fff234dSArd Biesheuvel help 19801fff234dSArd Biesheuvel Export EFI runtime memory regions to /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map. 19811fff234dSArd Biesheuvel That memory map is required by the 2nd kernel to set up EFI virtual 19821fff234dSArd Biesheuvel mappings after kexec, but can also be used for debugging purposes. 19831fff234dSArd Biesheuvel 19841fff234dSArd Biesheuvel See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map. 19851fff234dSArd Biesheuvel 19868636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "kernel/Kconfig.hz" 1987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 19886af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC 19896af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool y 1990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 19916af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE 1992c1ad12eeSArnd Bergmann def_bool X86_64 1993506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 19946af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SELECTS_KEXEC_FILE 19956af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool y 19966af51380SEric DeVolder depends on KEXEC_FILE 1997b69a2afdSJonathan McDowell select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA 199874ca317cSVivek Goyal 1999e6265fe7SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_PURGATORY 2000c1ad12eeSArnd Bergmann def_bool y 2001b799a09fSAKASHI Takahiro 20026af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG 20036af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool y 200499d5cadfSJiri Bohac 20056af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG_FORCE 20066af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool y 200799d5cadfSJiri Bohac 20086af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG 20096af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool y 201099d5cadfSJiri Bohac 20116af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_JUMP 20126af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool y 20138e7d8381SVivek Goyal 20142b082d6fSAlexander Grafconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER 20152b082d6fSAlexander Graf def_bool X86_64 20162b082d6fSAlexander Graf 20176af51380SEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP 20186af51380SEric DeVolder def_bool X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 20198e7d8381SVivek Goyal 202031daa343SDave Vasilevskyconfig ARCH_DEFAULT_CRASH_DUMP 202131daa343SDave Vasilevsky def_bool y 202231daa343SDave Vasilevsky 2023ea53ad9cSEric DeVolderconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_HOTPLUG 2024ea53ad9cSEric DeVolder def_bool y 20253ab83521SHuang Ying 20269c08a2a1SBaoquan Heconfig ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION 202785fcde40SBaoquan He def_bool CRASH_RESERVE 20289c08a2a1SBaoquan He 2029506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 20306a108a14SDavid Rientjes hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 2031ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin default "0x1000000" 2032a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2033506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 2034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 203543b1d3e6SChris Koch If the kernel is not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then bzImage 203643b1d3e6SChris Koch will decompress itself to above physical address and run from there. 203743b1d3e6SChris Koch Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where it has been loaded 203843b1d3e6SChris Koch by the boot loader. The only exception is if it is loaded below the 203943b1d3e6SChris Koch above physical address, in which case it will relocate itself there. 2040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 2042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 2043506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 2044506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 2045506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 2046506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 2047506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 2048506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 2049506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2050ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 2051ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 2052ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 2053ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 2054ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 2055ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 2056ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 2057330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst 2058ceefccc9SH. Peter Anvin for more details about crash dumps. 2059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 2061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 2062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 2063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 2064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 2065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 2066506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 2067506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2068506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 2069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2070506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 207126717808SH. Peter Anvin bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 207226717808SH. Peter Anvin default y 2073a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2074506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 2075506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 2076506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 2077506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 2078506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2079506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 2080506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 2081506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 2082506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2083506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 2084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 20858ab3820fSKees Cook (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location. 2086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 20878ab3820fSKees Cookconfig RANDOMIZE_BASE 2088e8581e3dSBaoquan He bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)" 20898ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RELOCATABLE 20906807c846SIngo Molnar default y 2091a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2092e8581e3dSBaoquan He In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR), 2093e8581e3dSBaoquan He this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image 2094e8581e3dSBaoquan He is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel 2095e8581e3dSBaoquan He image is mapped, as a security feature that deters exploit 2096e8581e3dSBaoquan He attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel 2097e8581e3dSBaoquan He code internals. 2098e8581e3dSBaoquan He 2099ed9f007eSKees Cook On 64-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are 2100ed9f007eSKees Cook randomized separately. The physical address will be anywhere 2101ed9f007eSKees Cook between 16MB and the top of physical memory (up to 64TB). The 2102ed9f007eSKees Cook virtual address will be randomized from 16MB up to 1GB (9 bits 2103ed9f007eSKees Cook of entropy). Note that this also reduces the memory space 2104ed9f007eSKees Cook available to kernel modules from 1.5GB to 1GB. 2105ed9f007eSKees Cook 2106ed9f007eSKees Cook On 32-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are 2107ed9f007eSKees Cook randomized together. They will be randomized from 16MB up to 2108ed9f007eSKees Cook 512MB (8 bits of entropy). 21098ab3820fSKees Cook 2110a653f356SKees Cook Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is 2111e8581e3dSBaoquan He supported. If RDTSC is supported, its value is mixed into 2112e8581e3dSBaoquan He the entropy pool as well. If neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are 2113ed9f007eSKees Cook supported, then entropy is read from the i8254 timer. The 2114ed9f007eSKees Cook usable entropy is limited by the kernel being built using 2115ed9f007eSKees Cook 2GB addressing, and that PHYSICAL_ALIGN must be at a 2116ed9f007eSKees Cook minimum of 2MB. As a result, only 10 bits of entropy are 2117ed9f007eSKees Cook theoretically possible, but the implementations are further 2118ed9f007eSKees Cook limited due to memory layouts. 2119e8581e3dSBaoquan He 21206807c846SIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 2121da2b6fb9SKees Cook 21228ab3820fSKees Cook# Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support 2123845adf72SH. Peter Anvinconfig X86_NEED_RELOCS 2124845adf72SH. Peter Anvin def_bool y 21258ab3820fSKees Cook depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE) 21269b400d17SArd Biesheuvel select ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS 2127845adf72SH. Peter Anvin 2128506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 2129a0215061SKees Cook hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 21308ab3820fSKees Cook default "0x200000" 2131a0215061SKees Cook range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 2132a0215061SKees Cook range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 2133a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 2135506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 2136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 2137506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 2139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 2140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 2141506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 2143506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 2144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 2145506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 2146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 2147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 2148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 2149506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2150a0215061SKees Cook On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 2151a0215061SKees Cook this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 2152a0215061SKees Cook 2153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 2154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 21550483e1faSThomas Garnierconfig RANDOMIZE_MEMORY 21560483e1faSThomas Garnier bool "Randomize the kernel memory sections" 21570483e1faSThomas Garnier depends on X86_64 21580483e1faSThomas Garnier depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE 21590483e1faSThomas Garnier default RANDOMIZE_BASE 2160a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 21610483e1faSThomas Garnier Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections 21620483e1faSThomas Garnier (physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature 21630483e1faSThomas Garnier makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable. 21640483e1faSThomas Garnier 21650483e1faSThomas Garnier The order of allocations remains unchanged. Entropy is generated in 21660483e1faSThomas Garnier the same way as RANDOMIZE_BASE. Current implementation in the optimal 21670483e1faSThomas Garnier configuration have in average 30,000 different possible virtual 21680483e1faSThomas Garnier addresses for each memory section. 21690483e1faSThomas Garnier 21706807c846SIngo Molnar If unsure, say Y. 21710483e1faSThomas Garnier 217290397a41SThomas Garnierconfig RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING 217390397a41SThomas Garnier hex "Physical memory mapping padding" if EXPERT 217490397a41SThomas Garnier depends on RANDOMIZE_MEMORY 217590397a41SThomas Garnier default "0xa" if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 217690397a41SThomas Garnier default "0x0" 217790397a41SThomas Garnier range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 217890397a41SThomas Garnier range 0x0 0x40 2179a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 218090397a41SThomas Garnier Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical 218190397a41SThomas Garnier memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful 218290397a41SThomas Garnier for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for 218390397a41SThomas Garnier address randomization. 218490397a41SThomas Garnier 218590397a41SThomas Garnier If unsure, leave at the default value. 218690397a41SThomas Garnier 21876449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemovconfig ADDRESS_MASKING 21886449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov bool "Linear Address Masking support" 21896449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov depends on X86_64 21903267cb6dSPawan Gupta depends on COMPILE_TEST || !CPU_MITIGATIONS # wait for LASS 21916449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov help 21926449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov Linear Address Masking (LAM) modifies the checking that is applied 21936449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov to 64-bit linear addresses, allowing software to use of the 21946449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov untranslated address bits for metadata. 21956449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov 21966449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov The capability can be used for efficient address sanitizers (ASAN) 21976449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov implementation and for optimizations in JITs. 21986449dcb0SKirill A. Shutemov 2199506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 2200bebd024eSThomas Gleixner def_bool y 220140b31360SStephen Rothwell depends on SMP 2202506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2203506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 2204b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski def_bool n 2205de711563SMateusz Jończyk prompt "Workaround for glibc 2.3.2 / 2.3.3 (released in year 2003/2004)" 2206953fee1dSIngo Molnar depends on COMPAT_32 2207a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2208b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are 2209b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address 2210b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski indicated in its segment table. 2211e84446deSRandy Dunlap 2212b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a 2213b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and 2214b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is 2215b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9 2216b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2". 2217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 2218b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying: 2219b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 2220b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 2221b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot 2222b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely. 2223b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance. 2224b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski 2225b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you 2226b0b49f26SAndy Lutomirski are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc. 2227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 22283dc33bd3SKees Cookchoice 22293dc33bd3SKees Cook prompt "vsyscall table for legacy applications" 22303dc33bd3SKees Cook depends on X86_64 2231625b7b7fSAndy Lutomirski default LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY 22323dc33bd3SKees Cook help 22333dc33bd3SKees Cook Legacy user code that does not know how to find the vDSO expects 22343dc33bd3SKees Cook to be able to issue three syscalls by calling fixed addresses in 22353dc33bd3SKees Cook kernel space. Since this location is not randomized with ASLR, 22363dc33bd3SKees Cook it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation. 22373dc33bd3SKees Cook 22383dc33bd3SKees Cook This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command 2239bf00745eSAndy Lutomirski line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|xonly|none]. Emulate mode 2240bf00745eSAndy Lutomirski is deprecated and can only be enabled using the kernel command 2241bf00745eSAndy Lutomirski line. 22423dc33bd3SKees Cook 22433dc33bd3SKees Cook On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no 22443dc33bd3SKees Cook static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty 22453dc33bd3SKees Cook to improve security. 22463dc33bd3SKees Cook 2247bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski If unsure, select "Emulate execution only". 22483dc33bd3SKees Cook 2249bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY 2250bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski bool "Emulate execution only" 2251bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski help 2252bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall 2253bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski address mapping and does not allow reads. This 2254bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski configuration is recommended when userspace might use the 2255bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski legacy vsyscall area but support for legacy binary 2256bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski instrumentation of legacy code is not needed. It mitigates 2257bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski certain uses of the vsyscall area as an ASLR-bypassing 2258bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski buffer. 22593dc33bd3SKees Cook 22603dc33bd3SKees Cook config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE 22613dc33bd3SKees Cook bool "None" 22623dc33bd3SKees Cook help 22633dc33bd3SKees Cook There will be no vsyscall mapping at all. This will 22643dc33bd3SKees Cook eliminate any risk of ASLR bypass due to the vsyscall 22653dc33bd3SKees Cook fixed address mapping. Attempts to use the vsyscalls 22663dc33bd3SKees Cook will be reported to dmesg, so that either old or 22673dc33bd3SKees Cook malicious userspace programs can be identified. 22683dc33bd3SKees Cook 22693dc33bd3SKees Cookendchoice 22703dc33bd3SKees Cook 2271516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 2272516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 2273a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2274516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 2275516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 2276516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 2277516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 2278516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 2279516cbf37STim Bird 2280516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 2281516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 228269711ca1SSébastien Hinderer boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 2283516cbf37STim Bird 2284516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 2285516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 2286516cbf37STim Bird 2287516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 2288516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 2289516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 2290516cbf37STim Bird default "" 2291a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2292516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 2293516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 2294516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 2295516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 2296516cbf37STim Bird 2297516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 2298516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 2299516cbf37STim Bird 2300516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 2301516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 2302516cbf37STim Bird file system. 2303516cbf37STim Bird 2304516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 2305516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 2306645e6466SAnders Roxell depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != "" 2307a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2308516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 2309516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 2310516cbf37STim Bird 2311516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 2312516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 2313516cbf37STim Bird 2314a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirskiconfig MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 2315a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT 2316a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski default y 2317a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2318a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86 2319a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system 2320a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as 2321a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski DOSEMU or some Wine programs. It is also used by some very old 2322a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski threading libraries. 2323a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski 2324a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Enabling this feature adds a small amount of overhead to 2325a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski context switches and increases the low-level kernel attack 2326a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski surface. Disabling it removes the modify_ldt(2) system call. 2327a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski 2328a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski Saying 'N' here may make sense for embedded or server kernels. 2329a5b9e5a2SAndy Lutomirski 23303aac3ebeSThomas Gleixnerconfig STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE 23313aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner bool "Enforce strict size checking for sigaltstack" 23323aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner depends on DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 23333aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner help 23343aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner For historical reasons MINSIGSTKSZ is a constant which became 23353aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner already too small with AVX512 support. Add a mechanism to 23363aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner enforce strict checking of the sigaltstack size against the 23373aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner real size of the FPU frame. This option enables the check 23383aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner by default. It can also be controlled via the kernel command 23393aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner line option 'strict_sas_size' independent of this config 23403aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner switch. Enabling it might break existing applications which 23413aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner allocate a too small sigaltstack but 'work' because they 23423aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner never get a signal delivered. 23433aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner 23443aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner Say 'N' unless you want to really enforce this check. 23453aac3ebeSThomas Gleixner 2346d6f635bcSKees Cookconfig CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT 2347d6f635bcSKees Cook bool "Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time" 2348d6f635bcSKees Cook depends on FINEIBT 23495595c31cSPaweł Anikiel depends on !RUST || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 2350d6f635bcSKees Cook default y 2351d6f635bcSKees Cook help 2352d6f635bcSKees Cook Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time. If enabled, 2353d6f635bcSKees Cook this is the same as booting with "cfi=auto". If disabled, 2354d6f635bcSKees Cook this is the same as booting with "cfi=kcfi". 2355d6f635bcSKees Cook 2356b700e7f0SSeth Jenningssource "kernel/livepatch/Kconfig" 2357b700e7f0SSeth Jennings 2358350afa8aSRavi Bangoriaconfig X86_BUS_LOCK_DETECT 2359350afa8aSRavi Bangoria bool "Split Lock Detect and Bus Lock Detect support" 2360408eb741SRavi Bangoria depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD 2361350afa8aSRavi Bangoria default y 2362350afa8aSRavi Bangoria help 2363350afa8aSRavi Bangoria Enable Split Lock Detect and Bus Lock Detect functionalities. 2364350afa8aSRavi Bangoria See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst> for more information. 2365350afa8aSRavi Bangoria 2366506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 23681ca3683cSUros Bizjakconfig CC_HAS_NAMED_AS 236947ff30ccSUros Bizjak def_bool $(success,echo 'int __seg_fs fs; int __seg_gs gs;' | $(CC) -x c - -S -o /dev/null) 237047ff30ccSUros Bizjak depends on CC_IS_GCC 23711ca3683cSUros Bizjak 2372b6762467SUros Bizjak# 2373b6762467SUros Bizjak# -fsanitize=kernel-address (KASAN) and -fsanitize=thread (KCSAN) 2374b6762467SUros Bizjak# are incompatible with named address spaces with GCC < 13.3 2375b6762467SUros Bizjak# (see GCC PR sanitizer/111736 and also PR sanitizer/115172). 2376b6762467SUros Bizjak# 2377b6762467SUros Bizjak 23789ebe5500SUros Bizjakconfig CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS 2379b6762467SUros Bizjak def_bool y 2380b6762467SUros Bizjak depends on !(KASAN || KCSAN) || GCC_VERSION >= 130300 2381b6762467SUros Bizjak depends on !(UBSAN_BOOL && KASAN) || GCC_VERSION >= 140200 23821ca3683cSUros Bizjak 23831ca3683cSUros Bizjakconfig USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT 2384b6762467SUros Bizjak def_bool CC_HAS_NAMED_AS 2385b6762467SUros Bizjak depends on CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS 23861ca3683cSUros Bizjak 2387f43b9876SPeter Zijlstraconfig CC_HAS_SLS 2388f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra def_bool $(cc-option,-mharden-sls=all) 2389f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2390f43b9876SPeter Zijlstraconfig CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK 2391f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra def_bool $(cc-option,-mfunction-return=thunk-extern) 2392f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2393bea75b33SThomas Gleixnerconfig CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING 2394bea75b33SThomas Gleixner def_bool $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=16,16) 2395bea75b33SThomas Gleixner 23960c92385dSPeter Zijlstraconfig CC_HAS_KCFI_ARITY 23970c92385dSPeter Zijlstra def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi -fsanitize-kcfi-arity) 23980c92385dSPeter Zijlstra depends on CC_IS_CLANG && !RUST 23990c92385dSPeter Zijlstra 2400bea75b33SThomas Gleixnerconfig FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI 2401bea75b33SThomas Gleixner int 2402bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default 59 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 2403bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default 27 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 2404bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default 11 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 2405bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default 3 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 2406bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default 0 2407bea75b33SThomas Gleixner 2408bea75b33SThomas Gleixner# Basically: FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT - 5*CFI_CLANG 2409bea75b33SThomas Gleixner# except Kconfig can't do arithmetic :/ 2410bea75b33SThomas Gleixnerconfig FUNCTION_PADDING_BYTES 2411bea75b33SThomas Gleixner int 2412bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI if CFI_CLANG 2413bea75b33SThomas Gleixner default FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 2414bea75b33SThomas Gleixner 2415931ab636SPeter Zijlstraconfig CALL_PADDING 2416931ab636SPeter Zijlstra def_bool n 2417931ab636SPeter Zijlstra depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && OBJTOOL 2418931ab636SPeter Zijlstra select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 2419931ab636SPeter Zijlstra 2420931ab636SPeter Zijlstraconfig FINEIBT 2421931ab636SPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 2422aefb2f2eSBreno Leitao depends on X86_KERNEL_IBT && CFI_CLANG && MITIGATION_RETPOLINE 2423931ab636SPeter Zijlstra select CALL_PADDING 2424931ab636SPeter Zijlstra 24250c92385dSPeter Zijlstraconfig FINEIBT_BHI 24260c92385dSPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 24270c92385dSPeter Zijlstra depends on FINEIBT && CC_HAS_KCFI_ARITY 24280c92385dSPeter Zijlstra 24298f7c0d8bSThomas Gleixnerconfig HAVE_CALL_THUNKS 24308f7c0d8bSThomas Gleixner def_bool y 24310911b8c5SBreno Leitao depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && OBJTOOL 24328f7c0d8bSThomas Gleixner 24338f7c0d8bSThomas Gleixnerconfig CALL_THUNKS 24348f7c0d8bSThomas Gleixner def_bool n 2435931ab636SPeter Zijlstra select CALL_PADDING 24368f7c0d8bSThomas Gleixner 2437b341b20dSPeter Zijlstraconfig PREFIX_SYMBOLS 2438b341b20dSPeter Zijlstra def_bool y 2439931ab636SPeter Zijlstra depends on CALL_PADDING && !CFI_CLANG 2440b341b20dSPeter Zijlstra 2441fe42754bSSean Christophersonmenuconfig CPU_MITIGATIONS 2442fe42754bSSean Christopherson bool "Mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities" 2443f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default y 2444f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2445fe42754bSSean Christopherson Say Y here to enable options which enable mitigations for hardware 2446fe42754bSSean Christopherson vulnerabilities (usually related to speculative execution). 2447ce0abef6SSean Christopherson Mitigations can be disabled or restricted to SMT systems at runtime 2448ce0abef6SSean Christopherson via the "mitigations" kernel parameter. 2449f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2450ce0abef6SSean Christopherson If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. This CANNOT be 2451ce0abef6SSean Christopherson overridden at runtime. 2452ce0abef6SSean Christopherson 2453ce0abef6SSean Christopherson Say 'Y', unless you really know what you are doing. 2454f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2455fe42754bSSean Christophersonif CPU_MITIGATIONS 2456f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2457ea4654e0SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION 2458f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode" 2459f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default y 2460f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra depends on (X86_64 || X86_PAE) 2461f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2462f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by 2463f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped 2464f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra into userspace. 2465f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2466ff61f079SJonathan Corbet See Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst for more details. 2467f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2468aefb2f2eSBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_RETPOLINE 2469f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel" 2470f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2471f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default y 2472f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2473f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against 2474f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect 2475f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern 2476f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. 2477f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 24780911b8c5SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_RETHUNK 2479f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Enable return-thunks" 2480aefb2f2eSBreno Leitao depends on MITIGATION_RETPOLINE && CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK 2481f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2482b648ab48SBen Hutchings default y if X86_64 2483f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2484f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra Compile the kernel with the return-thunks compiler option to guard 2485f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra against kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding return speculation. 2486f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra Requires a compiler with -mfunction-return=thunk-extern 2487f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. 2488f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2489ac61d439SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY 2490f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Enable UNRET on kernel entry" 24910911b8c5SBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && X86_64 2492f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default y 2493f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2494f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=unret mitigation. 2495f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 24965fa31af3SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING 249780e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner bool "Mitigate RSB underflow with call depth tracking" 249880e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && HAVE_CALL_THUNKS 249980e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 250080e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner select CALL_THUNKS 250180e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner default y 250280e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner help 250380e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner Compile the kernel with call depth tracking to mitigate the Intel 250486e39b94SBreno Leitao SKL Return-Stack-Buffer (RSB) underflow issue. The mitigation is off 250586e39b94SBreno Leitao by default and needs to be enabled on the kernel command line via the 250686e39b94SBreno Leitao retbleed=stuff option. For non-affected systems the overhead of this 250786e39b94SBreno Leitao option is marginal as the call depth tracking is using run-time 250886e39b94SBreno Leitao generated call thunks in a compiler generated padding area and call 250986e39b94SBreno Leitao patching. This increases text size by ~5%. For non affected systems 251086e39b94SBreno Leitao this space is unused. On affected SKL systems this results in a 251186e39b94SBreno Leitao significant performance gain over the IBRS mitigation. 251280e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner 2513e81dc127SThomas Gleixnerconfig CALL_THUNKS_DEBUG 2514e81dc127SThomas Gleixner bool "Enable call thunks and call depth tracking debugging" 25155fa31af3SBreno Leitao depends on MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING 2516e81dc127SThomas Gleixner select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 2517e81dc127SThomas Gleixner default n 2518e81dc127SThomas Gleixner help 2519e81dc127SThomas Gleixner Enable call/ret counters for imbalance detection and build in 2520e81dc127SThomas Gleixner a noisy dmesg about callthunks generation and call patching for 2521e81dc127SThomas Gleixner trouble shooting. The debug prints need to be enabled on the 2522e81dc127SThomas Gleixner kernel command line with 'debug-callthunks'. 252354628de6SRandy Dunlap Only enable this when you are debugging call thunks as this 252454628de6SRandy Dunlap creates a noticeable runtime overhead. If unsure say N. 252580e4c1cdSThomas Gleixner 2526e0b8fcfaSBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY 2527f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Enable IBPB on kernel entry" 2528b648ab48SBen Hutchings depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64 2529f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default y 2530f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2531318e8c33SPatrick Bellasi Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=ibpb and 2532318e8c33SPatrick Bellasi spec_rstack_overflow={ibpb,ibpb-vmexit} mitigations. 2533f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 25341da8d217SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY 2535f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Enable IBRS on kernel entry" 2536b648ab48SBen Hutchings depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 2537f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default y 2538f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2539f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra Compile the kernel with support for the spectre_v2=ibrs mitigation. 2540f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra This mitigates both spectre_v2 and retbleed at great cost to 2541f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra performance. 2542f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2543a033eec9SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_SRSO 2544fb3bd914SBorislav Petkov (AMD) bool "Mitigate speculative RAS overflow on AMD" 25450911b8c5SBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64 && MITIGATION_RETHUNK 2546fb3bd914SBorislav Petkov (AMD) default y 2547fb3bd914SBorislav Petkov (AMD) help 2548fb3bd914SBorislav Petkov (AMD) Enable the SRSO mitigation needed on AMD Zen1-4 machines. 2549fb3bd914SBorislav Petkov (AMD) 25507b75782fSBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_SLS 2551f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra bool "Mitigate Straight-Line-Speculation" 2552f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra depends on CC_HAS_SLS && X86_64 2553f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2554f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra default n 2555f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra help 2556f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra Compile the kernel with straight-line-speculation options to guard 2557f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly 2558f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra larger. 2559f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 2560225f2bd0SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_GDS 2561225f2bd0SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate Gather Data Sampling" 2562225f2bd0SBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2563225f2bd0SBreno Leitao default y 2564225f2bd0SBreno Leitao help 2565225f2bd0SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for Gather Data Sampling (GDS). GDS is a hardware 2566225f2bd0SBreno Leitao vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data 2567225f2bd0SBreno Leitao which was previously stored in vector registers. The attacker uses gather 2568225f2bd0SBreno Leitao instructions to infer the stale vector register data. 2569225f2bd0SBreno Leitao 25708076fcdeSPawan Guptaconfig MITIGATION_RFDS 25718076fcdeSPawan Gupta bool "RFDS Mitigation" 25728076fcdeSPawan Gupta depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 25738076fcdeSPawan Gupta default y 25748076fcdeSPawan Gupta help 25758076fcdeSPawan Gupta Enable mitigation for Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) by default. 25768076fcdeSPawan Gupta RFDS is a hardware vulnerability which affects Intel Atom CPUs. It 25778076fcdeSPawan Gupta allows unprivileged speculative access to stale data previously 25788076fcdeSPawan Gupta stored in floating point, vector and integer registers. 25798076fcdeSPawan Gupta See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst> 25808076fcdeSPawan Gupta 25814f511739SJosh Poimboeufconfig MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI 25824f511739SJosh Poimboeuf bool "Mitigate Spectre-BHB (Branch History Injection)" 2583ec9404e4SPawan Gupta depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 25844f511739SJosh Poimboeuf default y 2585ec9404e4SPawan Gupta help 2586ec9404e4SPawan Gupta Enable BHI mitigations. BHI attacks are a form of Spectre V2 attacks 2587ec9404e4SPawan Gupta where the branch history buffer is poisoned to speculatively steer 2588ec9404e4SPawan Gupta indirect branches. 2589ec9404e4SPawan Gupta See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst> 2590ec9404e4SPawan Gupta 259194045568SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_MDS 259294045568SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware bug" 259394045568SBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 259494045568SBreno Leitao default y 259594045568SBreno Leitao help 259694045568SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is 259794045568SBreno Leitao a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access 259894045568SBreno Leitao to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers. 259994045568SBreno Leitao See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst> 2600b8da0b33SBreno Leitao 2601b8da0b33SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_TAA 2602b8da0b33SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) hardware bug" 2603b8da0b33SBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2604b8da0b33SBreno Leitao default y 2605b8da0b33SBreno Leitao help 2606b8da0b33SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA). TAA is a hardware 2607b8da0b33SBreno Leitao vulnerability that allows unprivileged speculative access to data 2608b8da0b33SBreno Leitao which is available in various CPU internal buffers by using 2609b8da0b33SBreno Leitao asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX transactional region. 2610b8da0b33SBreno Leitao See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst> 2611163f9fe6SBreno Leitao 2612163f9fe6SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_MMIO_STALE_DATA 2613163f9fe6SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate MMIO Stale Data hardware bug" 2614163f9fe6SBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2615163f9fe6SBreno Leitao default y 2616163f9fe6SBreno Leitao help 2617163f9fe6SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for MMIO Stale Data hardware bugs. Processor MMIO 2618163f9fe6SBreno Leitao Stale Data Vulnerabilities are a class of memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) 2619163f9fe6SBreno Leitao vulnerabilities that can expose data. The vulnerabilities require the 2620163f9fe6SBreno Leitao attacker to have access to MMIO. 2621163f9fe6SBreno Leitao See also 2622163f9fe6SBreno Leitao <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst> 26233a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao 26243a4ee4ffSBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_L1TF 26253a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug" 26263a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 26273a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao default y 26283a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao help 26293a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug. L1 Terminal Fault is a 26303a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data 26313a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao available in the Level 1 Data Cache. 26323a4ee4ffSBreno Leitao See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2633894e2885SBreno Leitao 2634894e2885SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_RETBLEED 2635894e2885SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate RETBleed hardware bug" 2636894e2885SBreno Leitao depends on (CPU_SUP_INTEL && MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) || MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY || MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY 2637894e2885SBreno Leitao default y 2638894e2885SBreno Leitao help 2639894e2885SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for RETBleed (Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution 2640894e2885SBreno Leitao with Return Instructions) vulnerability. RETBleed is a speculative 2641894e2885SBreno Leitao execution attack which takes advantage of microarchitectural behavior 2642894e2885SBreno Leitao in many modern microprocessors, similar to Spectre v2. An 2643894e2885SBreno Leitao unprivileged attacker can use these flaws to bypass conventional 2644894e2885SBreno Leitao memory security restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory 2645894e2885SBreno Leitao that would otherwise be inaccessible. 2646ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao 2647ca01c0d8SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V1 2648ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V1 hardware bug" 2649ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao default y 2650ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao help 2651ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for Spectre V1 (Bounds Check Bypass). Spectre V1 is a 2652ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of speculative 2653ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao execution that bypasses conditional branch instructions used for 2654ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao memory access bounds check. 2655ca01c0d8SBreno Leitao See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst> 2656a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao 265772c70f48SBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 265872c70f48SBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V2 hardware bug" 265972c70f48SBreno Leitao default y 266072c70f48SBreno Leitao help 266172c70f48SBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection). Spectre 266272c70f48SBreno Leitao V2 is a class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of 266372c70f48SBreno Leitao indirect branch predictors inside the processor. In Spectre variant 2 266472c70f48SBreno Leitao attacks, the attacker can steer speculative indirect branches in the 266572c70f48SBreno Leitao victim to gadget code by poisoning the branch target buffer of a CPU 266672c70f48SBreno Leitao used for predicting indirect branch addresses. 266772c70f48SBreno Leitao See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst> 266872c70f48SBreno Leitao 2669a0b02e3fSBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_SRBDS 2670a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) hardware bug" 2671a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2672a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao default y 2673a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao help 2674a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS). 2675a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao SRBDS is a hardware vulnerability that allows Microarchitectural Data 2676a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao Sampling (MDS) techniques to infer values returned from special 2677a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao register accesses. An unprivileged user can extract values returned 2678a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao from RDRAND and RDSEED executed on another core or sibling thread 2679a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao using MDS techniques. 2680a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao See also 2681a0b02e3fSBreno Leitao <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst> 2682b908cdabSBreno Leitao 2683b908cdabSBreno Leitaoconfig MITIGATION_SSB 2684b908cdabSBreno Leitao bool "Mitigate Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) hardware bug" 2685b908cdabSBreno Leitao default y 2686b908cdabSBreno Leitao help 2687b908cdabSBreno Leitao Enable mitigation for Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). SSB is a 2688b908cdabSBreno Leitao hardware security vulnerability and its exploitation takes advantage 2689b908cdabSBreno Leitao of speculative execution in a similar way to the Meltdown and Spectre 2690b908cdabSBreno Leitao security vulnerabilities. 2691b908cdabSBreno Leitao 26928754e67aSPawan Guptaconfig MITIGATION_ITS 26938754e67aSPawan Gupta bool "Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation" 26948754e67aSPawan Gupta depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 26958754e67aSPawan Gupta depends on MITIGATION_RETPOLINE && MITIGATION_RETHUNK 2696872df34dSPeter Zijlstra select EXECMEM 26978754e67aSPawan Gupta default y 26988754e67aSPawan Gupta help 26998754e67aSPawan Gupta Enable Indirect Target Selection (ITS) mitigation. ITS is a bug in 27008754e67aSPawan Gupta BPU on some Intel CPUs that may allow Spectre V2 style attacks. If 27018754e67aSPawan Gupta disabled, mitigation cannot be enabled via cmdline. 27028754e67aSPawan Gupta See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst> 27038754e67aSPawan Gupta 2704d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD)config MITIGATION_TSA 2705d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) bool "Mitigate Transient Scheduler Attacks" 2706d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) depends on CPU_SUP_AMD 2707d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) default y 2708d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) help 2709d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) Enable mitigation for Transient Scheduler Attacks. TSA is a hardware 2710d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) security vulnerability on AMD CPUs which can lead to forwarding of 2711d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) invalid info to subsequent instructions and thus can affect their 2712d8010d4bSBorislav Petkov (AMD) timing and thereby cause a leakage. 2713556c1ad6SPawan Gupta 2714556c1ad6SPawan Guptaconfig MITIGATION_VMSCAPE 2715556c1ad6SPawan Gupta bool "Mitigate VMSCAPE" 2716556c1ad6SPawan Gupta depends on KVM 2717556c1ad6SPawan Gupta default y 2718556c1ad6SPawan Gupta help 2719556c1ad6SPawan Gupta Enable mitigation for VMSCAPE attacks. VMSCAPE is a hardware security 2720556c1ad6SPawan Gupta vulnerability on Intel and AMD CPUs that may allow a guest to do 2721556c1ad6SPawan Gupta Spectre v2 style attacks on userspace hypervisor. 2722f43b9876SPeter Zijlstraendif 2723f43b9876SPeter Zijlstra 27243072e413SMichal Hockoconfig ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES 27253072e413SMichal Hocko def_bool y 27265c11f00bSDavid Hildenbrand depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 27273072e413SMichal Hocko 2728da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 2729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 27313c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 273244556530SZhimin Gu depends on HIBERNATION 2733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 2735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 2737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2738a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 27396fc108a0SJan Beulich def_bool y 2740282e5aabSPaul Bolle depends on APM 2741a6b68076SAndi Kleen 2742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 2743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 2744efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 2745a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 2747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 2748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 2749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 2750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 2751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 2752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 2754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 2755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 2757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 2758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 2760151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.rst> 27612dc98fd3SMichael Witten and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 2762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 2763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2764e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 2765e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 2766e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 2767e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2768e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 2769e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 2770e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 2771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 2772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 2774e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 2775e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 2776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 2777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 2778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2779e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 2780e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 2781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 2783e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 27847987448fSStephen Kitt 2) pass the "idle=poll" option to the kernel 2785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 2786e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 2787e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 2788e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 2789e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 2790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 2791e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 2792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 2793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 2794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 2795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 2796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 2797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 2799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 2800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 2802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 2804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 2805a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 2807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 2808e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 2809e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2810e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 2811e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 2812a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2813e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 2814e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 2815e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 2816e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 2817e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 2818e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 2819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 2820e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 2821e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 2822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 2823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 2824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 2825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 2826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 2828dd8af076SLen Brown depends on CPU_IDLE 2829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 2830a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2831e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 2832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 2833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 2834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 2835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 2836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 2837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 2838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2839e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 2840e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 2841a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2842e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 2843e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 2844e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 2845e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 2846e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 2847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 2851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 2853e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 2854a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2859e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 2863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2864bb0a56ecSDave Jonessource "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 286827471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 286927471fdbSAndy Henroid 2870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 2871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 2875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 2876efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 2877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 2878a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2886e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 2894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 2895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 2898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 2900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 2901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 29023ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 290376fb6570SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1" 29043ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 29053ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 29062bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 29072bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 29082bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 2909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 2910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 29123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 2913efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 29173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 29180aba496fSShaohua Li depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2919e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2920e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 2921b45c9f36SJan Kiszka bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" if X86_64 2922b45c9f36SJan Kiszka default y 29234590d98fSAndy Shevchenko depends on PCI && (ACPI || JAILHOUSE_GUEST) 2924b45c9f36SJan Kiszka depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOMMCONFIG) 292521d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk help 292621d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk Add support for accessing the PCI configuration space as a memory 292721d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk mapped area. It is the recommended method if the system supports 292821d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk this (it must have PCI Express and ACPI for it to be available). 292921d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk 293021d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk In the unlikely case that enabling this configuration option causes 293121d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk problems, the mechanism can be switched off with the 'pci=nommconf' 293221d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk command line parameter. 293321d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk 293421d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk Say N only if you are sure that your platform does not support this 293521d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk access method or you have problems caused by it. 293621d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk 293721d8fb8dSMateusz Jończyk Say Y otherwise. 2938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 29393ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 29402bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 29412bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 29423ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 2943b5401a96SAlex Nixonconfig PCI_XEN 2944b5401a96SAlex Nixon def_bool y 2945b5401a96SAlex Nixon depends on PCI && XEN 2946b5401a96SAlex Nixon 29478364e1f8SJan Kiszkaconfig MMCONF_FAM10H 29488364e1f8SJan Kiszka def_bool y 29498364e1f8SJan Kiszka depends on X86_64 && PCI_MMCONFIG && ACPI 2950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 29513f6ea84aSIra W. Snyderconfig PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 2952d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk bool "Read PCI host bridge windows from the CNB20LE chipset" if EXPERT 2953d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk depends on X86_32 && PCI 29543f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder help 29553f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 29563f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 29573f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder not have ACPI. 29583f6ea84aSIra W. Snyder 2959d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk The ServerWorks (later Broadcom) CNB20LE was a chipset designed 2960d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk most probably only for Pentium III. 2961d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk 2962d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk To find out if you have such a chipset, search for a PCI device with 2963d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk 1166:0009 PCI IDs, for example by executing 2964d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk lspci -nn | grep '1166:0009' 2965d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk The code is inactive if there is none. 2966d9f87802SMateusz Jończyk 296764a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 296864a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas is known to be incomplete. 296964a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 297064a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas You should say N unless you know you need this. 297164a5fed6SBjorn Helgaas 29723a495511SWilliam Breathitt Grayconfig ISA_BUS 297317a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray bool "ISA bus support on modern systems" if EXPERT 29743a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray help 297517a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray Expose ISA bus device drivers and options available for selection and 297617a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray configuration. Enable this option if your target machine has an ISA 297717a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray bus. ISA is an older system, displaced by PCI and newer bus 297817a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray architectures -- if your target machine is modern, it probably does 297917a2a129SWilliam Breathitt Gray not have an ISA bus. 29803a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 29813a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray If unsure, say N. 29823a495511SWilliam Breathitt Gray 29831c00f016SDavid Rientjes# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2984e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 29851c00f016SDavid Rientjes bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 29861c00f016SDavid Rientjes default y 29871c00f016SDavid Rientjes help 29881c00f016SDavid Rientjes Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 29891c00f016SDavid Rientjes If unsure, say Y. 2990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 299151e68d05SLinus Torvaldsif X86_32 299251e68d05SLinus Torvalds 2993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 2994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 2995a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 3000e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 3001e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 3003e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 3004a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3005e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 3006e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 3007e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 3008e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 3009e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3010e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 3011e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3012e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 3013e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 3014592913ecSJohn Stultz depends on SCx200 3015e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 3016a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3017e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 3018e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 3019e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 3020e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 3021e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 3022e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 30233ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 30243ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 302554008979SThomas Gleixner depends on !X86_PAE 30263c554946SAndres Salomon select GPIOLIB 3027dc3119e7SThomas Gleixner select OF 302845bb1674SDaniel Drake select OF_PROMTREE 3029b4e51854SGrant Likely select IRQ_DOMAIN 30300c3d931bSLubomir Rintel select OLPC_EC 3031a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 30323ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 30333ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 30343ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 3035a3128588SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_PM 3036a3128588SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 3037fa112cf1SBorislav Petkov depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP 3038a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 303997c4cb71SDaniel Drake Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 3040bf1ebf00SDaniel Drake 3041cfee9597SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_RTC 3042cfee9597SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 3043cfee9597SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 3044a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3045cfee9597SDaniel Drake Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 3046cfee9597SDaniel Drake programmable wakeup source. 3047cfee9597SDaniel Drake 30487feda8e9SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO1_SCI 30497feda8e9SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 305092e830f2SArnd Bergmann depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y 3051ed8e47feSRandy Dunlap depends on INPUT=y 3052d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 3053a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 30547feda8e9SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 30557bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 30567feda8e9SDaniel Drake - Power button 30577bc74b3dSDaniel Drake - Ebook switch 30582cf2baeaSDaniel Drake - Lid switch 3059e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 3060e1040ac6SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 30617feda8e9SDaniel Drake 3062a0f30f59SDaniel Drakeconfig OLPC_XO15_SCI 3063a0f30f59SDaniel Drake bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 3064d8d01a63SDaniel Drake depends on OLPC && ACPI 3065d8d01a63SDaniel Drake select POWER_SUPPLY 3066a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3067a0f30f59SDaniel Drake Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 3068a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - EC-driven system wakeups 3069a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - AC adapter status updates 3070a0f30f59SDaniel Drake - Battery status updates 3071e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3072298c9babSDmitry Torokhovconfig GEODE_COMMON 3073298c9babSDmitry Torokhov bool 3074298c9babSDmitry Torokhov 3075d4f3e350SEd Wildgooseconfig ALIX 3076d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 3077d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose select GPIOLIB 3078298c9babSDmitry Torokhov select GEODE_COMMON 3079a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3080d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 3081d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 3082d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 3083d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose get added here. 3084d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 3085d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 3086d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 3087d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 3088d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 3089d4f3e350SEd Wildgoose 3090da4e3302SPhilip Prindevilleconfig NET5501 3091da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 3092da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville select GPIOLIB 3093298c9babSDmitry Torokhov select GEODE_COMMON 3094a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3095da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 3096da4e3302SPhilip Prindeville 30973197059aSPhilip A. Prindevilleconfig GEOS 30983197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 30993197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville select GPIOLIB 3100298c9babSDmitry Torokhov select GEODE_COMMON 31013197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville depends on DMI 3102a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 31033197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 31043197059aSPhilip A. Prindeville 31057d029125SVivien Didelotconfig TS5500 31067d029125SVivien Didelot bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 31077d029125SVivien Didelot depends on MELAN 31087d029125SVivien Didelot select CHECK_SIGNATURE 31097d029125SVivien Didelot select NEW_LEDS 31107d029125SVivien Didelot select LEDS_CLASS 3111a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 31127d029125SVivien Didelot This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 31137d029125SVivien Didelot 3114e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 3115e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 311623ac4ae8SAndreas Herrmannconfig AMD_NB 3117e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 3118e6e6e5e8SYazen Ghannam depends on AMD_NODE 3119e6e6e5e8SYazen Ghannam 3120e6e6e5e8SYazen Ghannamconfig AMD_NODE 3121e6e6e5e8SYazen Ghannam def_bool y 31220e152cd7SBorislav Petkov depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 3123e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3124e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 3125e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 31261572497cSChristoph Hellwigmenu "Binary Emulations" 3127e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3128e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 3129e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 3130e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 313139f88911SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 3132d1603990SRandy Dunlap select BINFMT_ELF 313339f88911SIngo Molnar select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 3134a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 31355fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 31365fd92e65SH. J. Lu 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 31375fd92e65SH. J. Lu 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 3138e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3139a11e0975SNikolay Borisovconfig IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED 3140a11e0975SNikolay Borisov bool "IA32 emulation disabled by default" 3141a11e0975SNikolay Borisov default n 3142a11e0975SNikolay Borisov depends on IA32_EMULATION 3143a11e0975SNikolay Borisov help 3144a11e0975SNikolay Borisov Make IA32 emulation disabled by default. This prevents loading 32-bit 3145a11e0975SNikolay Borisov processes and access to 32-bit syscalls. If unsure, leave it to its 3146a11e0975SNikolay Borisov default value. 3147a11e0975SNikolay Borisov 314883a44a4fSMasahiro Yamadaconfig X86_X32_ABI 31496ea30386SKees Cook bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 31509b54050bSBrian Gerst depends on X86_64 3151aaeed6ecSNathan Chancellor # llvm-objcopy does not convert x86_64 .note.gnu.property or 3152aaeed6ecSNathan Chancellor # compressed debug sections to x86_x32 properly: 3153aaeed6ecSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/514 3154aaeed6ecSNathan Chancellor # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1141 3155aaeed6ecSNathan Chancellor depends on $(success,$(OBJCOPY) --version | head -n1 | grep -qv llvm) 3156a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 31575fd92e65SH. J. Lu Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 31585fd92e65SH. J. Lu for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 31595fd92e65SH. J. Lu full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 31605fd92e65SH. J. Lu pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 31615fd92e65SH. J. Lu 3162953fee1dSIngo Molnarconfig COMPAT_32 3163953fee1dSIngo Molnar def_bool y 3164953fee1dSIngo Molnar depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_32 3165953fee1dSIngo Molnar select HAVE_UID16 3166953fee1dSIngo Molnar select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 3167953fee1dSIngo Molnar 3168e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 31693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 317083a44a4fSMasahiro Yamada depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32_ABI 3171e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3172e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 31733120e25eSJan Beulich def_bool y 3174a9251280SLinus Torvalds depends on COMPAT 3175ee009e4aSDavid Howells 3176e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 3177e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3178e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 3179e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 3180e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 3181e5beae16SKeith Packard 3182edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 31835e8ebd84SJason A. Donenfeld 31843d37d939SH. Peter Anvin (Intel)source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures" 31853d37d939SH. Peter Anvin (Intel) 31865e8ebd84SJason A. Donenfeldsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler" 3187