11032c0baSSam Ravnborg# x86 configuration 2daa93fabSSam Ravnborgmainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" 3daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 4daa93fabSSam Ravnborg# Select 32 or 64 bit 5daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig 64BIT 66840999bSSam Ravnborg bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" 76840999bSSam Ravnborg default ARCH = "x86_64" 8daa93fabSSam Ravnborg help 9daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 10daa93fabSSam Ravnborg Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 11daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 12daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32 13daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool !64BIT 14daa93fabSSam Ravnborg 15daa93fabSSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64 16daa93fabSSam Ravnborg def_bool 64BIT 171032c0baSSam Ravnborg 181032c0baSSam Ravnborg### Arch settings 198d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86 203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 21e17c6d56SDavid Woodhouse select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 222c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_READQ 232c5643b1SHitoshi Mitake select HAVE_WRITEQ 24a5574cf6SIngo Molnar select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 25ec7748b5SSam Ravnborg select HAVE_IDE 2642d4b839SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_OPROFILE 2728b2ee20SRik van Riel select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 283f550096SMathieu Desnoyers select HAVE_KPROBES 291f972768SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB 30da4276b8SIngo Molnar select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 319edddaa2SAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli select HAVE_KRETPROBES 32e4b2b886SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 33677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34606576ceSSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 3548d68b20SFrederic Weisbecker select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3660a7ecf4SSteven Rostedt select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 371a4e3f89SRandy Dunlap select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64) 38fcbc04c0SIngo Molnar select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER 3999bbc4b1SRoland McGrath select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 40323ec001SDmitry Baryshkov select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32 4158340a07SJohannes Berg select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 428d26487fSTörök Edwin select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 437d8330a5SBalbir Singh 4473531905SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DEFCONFIG 45b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg string 4673531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32 4773531905SSam Ravnborg default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64 48b9b39bfbSSam Ravnborg 498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME 503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 593c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 608d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 618d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 623c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 663c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 688d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 693c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 708d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 71aa7d9350SHeiko Carstensconfig HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT 72aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens def_bool y 73aa7d9350SHeiko Carstens 741f84260cSChristoph Lameterconfig FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 751f84260cSChristoph Lameter bool 761f84260cSChristoph Lameter default y 771f84260cSChristoph Lameter 788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig MMU 793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA 823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig SBUS 858d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 868d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 878d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_ISA_DMA 883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 898d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 908d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IOMAP 913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 928d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 938d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_BUG 943c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 958d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on BUG 96b93a531eSJan Beulich select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 97b93a531eSJan Beulich 98b93a531eSJan Beulichconfig GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 99b93a531eSJan Beulich bool 1008d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HWEIGHT 1023c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 104a6082959SFlorian Fainelliconfig GENERIC_GPIO 1059ba16087SJan Beulich bool 106a6082959SFlorian Fainelli 1078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 1083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1101032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK 1111032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool !X86_XADD 1121032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1131032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM 1141032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_XADD 1151032c0baSSam Ravnborg 116a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT 117a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi def_bool y 118a6869cc4SVenki Pallipadi 1191032c0baSSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 1201032c0baSSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1211032c0baSSam Ravnborg 1228d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 1238d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1248d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1258d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1269a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 1279a0b8415Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com def_bool y 1288d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 12989cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadiconfig ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE 13089cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi def_bool y 13189cedfefSVenkatesh Pallipadi 1321b27d05bSPekka Enbergconfig ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 1331b27d05bSPekka Enberg def_bool y 1341b27d05bSPekka Enberg 135dd5af90aSMike Travisconfig HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 13623ca4bbaSMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP || (X86_SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) 137b32ef636Stravis@sgi.com 1389f0e8d04SMike Travisconfig HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP 1399f0e8d04SMike Travis def_bool X86_64_SMP 1409f0e8d04SMike Travis 141801e4062SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 142801e4062SJohannes Berg def_bool y 143801e4062SJohannes Berg depends on !SMP || !X86_VOYAGER 144801e4062SJohannes Berg 145f4cb5700SJohannes Bergconfig ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 146f4cb5700SJohannes Berg def_bool y 147f4cb5700SJohannes Berg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 148f4cb5700SJohannes Berg 1498d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ZONE_DMA32 1508d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1518d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1528d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1538d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP 1548d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1558d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1568d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig AUDIT_ARCH 1578d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1588d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default X86_64 1598d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 160765c68bdSIngo Molnarconfig ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING 161765c68bdSIngo Molnar def_bool y 162765c68bdSIngo Molnar 1638d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg# Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/: 1648d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS 1658d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1668d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1678d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 168*fc2869f6SThomas Gleixnerconfig GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ 169*fc2869f6SThomas Gleixner def_bool y 170*fc2869f6SThomas Gleixner 1718d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 1728d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1738d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1748d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1758d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ 1768d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1778d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP 1788d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1798d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1808d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SMP 1818d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 1826b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP && ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64) 1838d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 1848d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 1856cd10f8dSJames Bottomleyconfig USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 1866cd10f8dSJames Bottomley def_bool y 1876cd10f8dSJames Bottomley depends on SMP 1886cd10f8dSJames Bottomley 1896b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_32_SMP 1906b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1916b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 1926b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1936b0c3d44SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_SMP 1946b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1956b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && SMP 1966b0c3d44SSam Ravnborg 1978d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_HT 1988d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 199ee0011a7SAdrian Bunk depends on SMP 200efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on (X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64 2018d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2028d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2038d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_BIOS_REBOOT 2048d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 20531ac409aSIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 2068d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2078d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2088d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_TRAMPOLINE 2098d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg bool 210e44b7b75SPavel Machek depends on X86_SMP || (X86_VOYAGER && SMP) || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) 2118d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg default y 2128d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 2138d5fffb9SSam Ravnborgconfig KTIME_SCALAR 2148d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_32 215506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "init/Kconfig" 216dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleysource "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" 2178d5fffb9SSam Ravnborg 218506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenu "Processor type and features" 219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 220506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/time/Kconfig" 221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 222506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SMP 223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If 227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y. 228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor 230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel 233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will run faster if you say N here. 234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 236506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 24403502faaSAdrian Bunk See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>, 245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't know what to do here, say N. 249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 250b3572e36SJames Bottomleyconfig X86_HAS_BOOT_CPU_ID 251b3572e36SJames Bottomley def_bool y 252b3572e36SJames Bottomley depends on X86_VOYAGER 253b3572e36SJames Bottomley 2540b8f1efaSYinghai Luconfig SPARSE_IRQ 2550b8f1efaSYinghai Lu bool "Support sparse irq numbering" 25617483a1fSYinghai Lu depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ 2570b8f1efaSYinghai Lu help 258973656feSIngo Molnar This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro 259973656feSIngo Molnar kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still 260973656feSIngo Molnar want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. 2610b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 262973656feSIngo Molnar ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread 263973656feSIngo Molnar out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. ) 264973656feSIngo Molnar 265973656feSIngo Molnar If you don't know what to do here, say N. 2660b8f1efaSYinghai Lu 26748a1b10aSYinghai Luconfig NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC 26848a1b10aSYinghai Lu bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" 269b9098957SYinghai Lu depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA 27048a1b10aSYinghai Lu default n 27148a1b10aSYinghai Lu help 27248a1b10aSYinghai Lu This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. 27348a1b10aSYinghai Lu 27448a1b10aSYinghai Lu If you don't know what to do here, say N. 27548a1b10aSYinghai Lu 2766695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG 2776695c85bSYinghai Lu def_bool y 2781b84e1c8SIngo Molnar depends on X86_MPPARSE || X86_VOYAGER 2796695c85bSYinghai Lu 2806695c85bSYinghai Luconfig X86_MPPARSE 2817a527688SJan Beulich bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 2827a527688SJan Beulich default y 2835ab74722SIngo Molnar depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 2846695c85bSYinghai Lu help 2856695c85bSYinghai Lu For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 2866695c85bSYinghai Lu (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 2876695c85bSYinghai Lu 288506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 289506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Subarchitecture Type" 290506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default X86_PC 291506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 292506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PC 293506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "PC-compatible" 294506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 295506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. 296506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 297506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ELAN 298506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "AMD Elan" 299506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 300506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 301506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this for an AMD Elan processor. 302506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 303506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! 304506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 305506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead. 306506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 307506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VOYAGER 308506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Voyager (NCR)" 3091ac97018SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && (SMP || BROKEN) && !PCI 310506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 311506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary 312506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. 313506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 314506f1d07SSam Ravnborg *** WARNING *** 315506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 316506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, 317506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say N here, otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. 318506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 319506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_GENERICARCH 320d49c4288SYinghai Lu bool "Generic architecture" 321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 323d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default 324d49c4288SYinghai Lu subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. 325d49c4288SYinghai Lu if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will 326d49c4288SYinghai Lu fallback to default. 327d49c4288SYinghai Lu 328d49c4288SYinghai Luif X86_GENERICARCH 329d49c4288SYinghai Lu 330506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_NUMAQ 331506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)" 3323de352bbSIngo Molnar depends on SMP && X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE 333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select NUMA 334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 335d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) 336d49c4288SYinghai Lu NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are 337d49c4288SYinghai Lu bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead 338d49c4288SYinghai Lu of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your 339d49c4288SYinghai Lu firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>. 340506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 341506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT 342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" 343506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. 346506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In particular, it is needed for the x440. 347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 348506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_ES7000 349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" 350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && SMP 351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. 354d49c4288SYinghai Lu 355d49c4288SYinghai Luconfig X86_BIGSMP 356d49c4288SYinghai Lu bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 357d49c4288SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && SMP 358d49c4288SYinghai Lu help 359d49c4288SYinghai Lu This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs 360d49c4288SYinghai Lu and if the system is not of any sub-arch type above. 361d49c4288SYinghai Lu 362d49c4288SYinghai Luendif 363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 364506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VSMP 365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" 36696597fd2SGlauber Costa select PARAVIRT 367a6784ad7SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI 368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 370506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg if you have one of these machines. 372506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 373506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 374506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3751b84e1c8SIngo Molnarconfig X86_VISWS 3761b84e1c8SIngo Molnar bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" 37739415a44SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && !X86_VOYAGER && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT 3781b84e1c8SIngo Molnar help 3791b84e1c8SIngo Molnar The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation 3801b84e1c8SIngo Molnar based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. 3811b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 3821b84e1c8SIngo Molnar Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. 3831b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 3841b84e1c8SIngo Molnar A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general 3851b84e1c8SIngo Molnar PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details. 3861b84e1c8SIngo Molnar 3871f972768SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RDC321X 3881f972768SIngo Molnar bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 3891f972768SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 3901f972768SIngo Molnar select M486 3911f972768SIngo Molnar select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 3921f972768SIngo Molnar help 3931f972768SIngo Molnar This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 3941f972768SIngo Molnar as R-8610-(G). 3951f972768SIngo Molnar If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 3961f972768SIngo Molnar 397ae1e9130SIngo Molnarconfig SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 3983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 3993c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 400a87d0914SKen Chen depends on X86 401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 403506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 404506f1d07SSam Ravnborg caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 405506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 406506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 407506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If in doubt, say "Y". 408506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 409506f1d07SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST 410506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Paravirtualized guest support" 411506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under 413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 417506f1d07SSam Ravnborgif PARAVIRT_GUEST 418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 419506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 421506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VMI 422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "VMI Guest support" 423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select PARAVIRT 42442d545c9SEduardo Pereira Habkost depends on X86_32 425efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server 428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not 429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module 430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg provided by the hypervisor. 431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 432790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costaconfig KVM_CLOCK 433790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" 434790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa select PARAVIRT 435f6e16d5aSGerd Hoffmann select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 436efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 437790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa help 438790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock 439790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT 440790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host 441790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and 442790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa system time 443790c73f6SGlauber de Oliveira Costa 4440cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatticonfig KVM_GUEST 4450cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti bool "KVM Guest support" 4460cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti select PARAVIRT 447efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 4480cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti help 4490cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 4500cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti hypervisor. 4510cf1bfd2SMarcelo Tosatti 452506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" 453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 454e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkostconfig PARAVIRT 455e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 456efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 457e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost help 458e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 459e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 460e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 461e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 462e61bd94aSEduardo Pereira Habkost 4637af192c9SGerd Hoffmannconfig PARAVIRT_CLOCK 4647af192c9SGerd Hoffmann bool 4657af192c9SGerd Hoffmann default n 4667af192c9SGerd Hoffmann 467506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendif 468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 46997349135SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig PARAVIRT_DEBUG 47097349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 47197349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 47297349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 47397349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 47497349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 47597349135SJeremy Fitzhardinge 47603273184SYinghai Luconfig MEMTEST 47703273184SYinghai Lu bool "Memtest" 478c64df707SYinghai Lu help 479c64df707SYinghai Lu This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 48003273184SYinghai Lu to be set. 48103273184SYinghai Lu memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 48203273184SYinghai Lu memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 48303273184SYinghai Lu ... 48403273184SYinghai Lu memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. 485aba3728cSThomas Gleixner If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 487506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_SUMMIT_NUMA 4883c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4890699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_GENERICARCH 490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 491506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CYCLONE_TIMER 4923c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 4930699eae1SYinghai Lu depends on X86_GENERICARCH 494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 495506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 496506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 497506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_TIMER 4983c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool X86_64 499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 500506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 501506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 502506f1d07SSam Ravnborg time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 503506f1d07SSam Ravnborg present. 504506f1d07SSam Ravnborg HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 506506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 507506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at 508e45f2c07SDenis V. Lunev <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. 509506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 511506f1d07SSam Ravnborg activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 516506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HPET_EMULATE_RTC 5173c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5189d8af78bSBernhard Walle depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 519506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 520506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong. 521506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# The code disables itself when not needed. 5227ae9392cSThomas Petazzoniconfig DMI 5237ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni default y 5247ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED 5257ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni help 5267ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 5277ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni here unless you have verified that your setup is not 5287ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 5297ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni BIOS code. 5307ae9392cSThomas Petazzoni 531506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig GART_IOMMU 532506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED 533506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 534506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 535506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select AGP 536506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI 537506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 538506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only 539506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, 540506f1d07SSam Ravnborg sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 541506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART 542506f1d07SSam Ravnborg based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used 543506f1d07SSam Ravnborg on Intel systems and as fallback. 544506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited 545506f1d07SSam Ravnborg device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified 546506f1d07SSam Ravnborg too. 547506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 548506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU 549506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" 550506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SWIOTLB 551506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 552506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 553506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 554506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory 555506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC 556506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level 557506f1d07SSam Ravnborg isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This 558506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prevents them from going anywhere except their intended 559506f1d07SSam Ravnborg destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and 560506f1d07SSam Ravnborg mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API 561506f1d07SSam Ravnborg properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be 562506f1d07SSam Ravnborg turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter. 563506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. 564506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 566506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 5673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 5683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" 569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CALGARY_IOMMU 570506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 571506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary 572506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be 573506f1d07SSam Ravnborg used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use 574506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line. 575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 5772b188723SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU 5782b188723SJoerg Roedel bool "AMD IOMMU support" 57907c40e8aSIngo Molnar select SWIOTLB 580a80dc3e0SJoerg Roedel select PCI_MSI 58124d2ba0aSIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 5822b188723SJoerg Roedel help 58318d22200SJoerg Roedel With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in 58418d22200SJoerg Roedel your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides 58518d22200SJoerg Roedel remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you 58618d22200SJoerg Roedel can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the 58718d22200SJoerg Roedel system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware. 58818d22200SJoerg Roedel 58918d22200SJoerg Roedel You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into 59018d22200SJoerg Roedel your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI 59118d22200SJoerg Roedel table. 5922b188723SJoerg Roedel 5932e117604SJoerg Roedelconfig AMD_IOMMU_STATS 5942e117604SJoerg Roedel bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" 5952e117604SJoerg Roedel depends on AMD_IOMMU 5962e117604SJoerg Roedel select DEBUG_FS 5972e117604SJoerg Roedel help 5982e117604SJoerg Roedel This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various 5992e117604SJoerg Roedel statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that 6002e117604SJoerg Roedel information to userspace via debugfs. 6012e117604SJoerg Roedel If unsure, say N. 6022e117604SJoerg Roedel 603506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround 604506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SWIOTLB 605a1afd01cSJoerg Roedel def_bool y if X86_64 606506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 607506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems 608506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation 609506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only 610506f1d07SSam Ravnborg access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than 611506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y. 612506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 613a8522509SFUJITA Tomonoriconfig IOMMU_HELPER 61418b743dcSFUJITA Tomonori def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU) 615d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds 6161aaf1183SJoerg Roedelconfig IOMMU_API 6171aaf1183SJoerg Roedel def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR) 6181aaf1183SJoerg Roedel 6191184dc2fSMike Travisconfig MAXSMP 6201184dc2fSMike Travis bool "Configure Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 62136f5101aSMike Travis depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL 62236f5101aSMike Travis select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 6231184dc2fSMike Travis default n 6241184dc2fSMike Travis help 6251184dc2fSMike Travis Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 6261184dc2fSMike Travis If unsure, say N. 627506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 628506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NR_CPUS 62936f5101aSMike Travis int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 63036f5101aSMike Travis range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP 63178637a97SMike Travis default "1" if !SMP 632d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "4096" if MAXSMP 63378637a97SMike Travis default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) 63478637a97SMike Travis default "8" if SMP 635506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 636506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 637d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the 638506f1d07SSam Ravnborg minimum value which makes sense is 2. 639506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 640506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds 641506f1d07SSam Ravnborg approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. 642506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 643506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_SMT 644506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" 645b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 646506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 647506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making 648506f1d07SSam Ravnborg when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a 649506f1d07SSam Ravnborg cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say 650506f1d07SSam Ravnborg N here. 651506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 652506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SCHED_MC 6533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 6543c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 655b089c12bSHiroshi Shimamoto depends on X86_HT 656506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 657506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 658506f1d07SSam Ravnborg making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 659506f1d07SSam Ravnborg increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 660506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 661506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" 662506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 663506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_APIC 664506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" 665efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !(X86_VOYAGER || X86_GENERICARCH) 666506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 667506f1d07SSam Ravnborg A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 668506f1d07SSam Ravnborg integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 669506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 670506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 671506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 672506f1d07SSam Ravnborg all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 673506f1d07SSam Ravnborg performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 674506f1d07SSam Ravnborg lockups. 675506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 676506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_UP_IOAPIC 677506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 678506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_UP_APIC 679506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 680506f1d07SSam Ravnborg An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 681506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 682506f1d07SSam Ravnborg SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 683506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 684506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 685506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 686506f1d07SSam Ravnborg an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 687506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 688506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_LOCAL_APIC 6893c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 690efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_APIC || (SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 691506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 692506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_IO_APIC 6933c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 694efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_UP_IOAPIC || (SMP && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_GENERICARCH)) 695506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 696506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_VISWS_APIC 6973c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 698506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS 699506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 70041b9eb26SStefan Assmannconfig X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 70141b9eb26SStefan Assmann bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 70241b9eb26SStefan Assmann default n 70341b9eb26SStefan Assmann depends on X86_IO_APIC 70441b9eb26SStefan Assmann help 70541b9eb26SStefan Assmann This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 70641b9eb26SStefan Assmann spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 70741b9eb26SStefan Assmann interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 70841b9eb26SStefan Assmann superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 70941b9eb26SStefan Assmann 71041b9eb26SStefan Assmann Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 71141b9eb26SStefan Assmann entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 71241b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 71341b9eb26SStefan Assmann boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 71441b9eb26SStefan Assmann the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 71541b9eb26SStefan Assmann IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 71641b9eb26SStefan Assmann kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 71741b9eb26SStefan Assmann way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 71841b9eb26SStefan Assmann the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 71941b9eb26SStefan Assmann down (vital) interrupt lines. 72041b9eb26SStefan Assmann 72141b9eb26SStefan Assmann Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 72241b9eb26SStefan Assmann increased on these systems. 72341b9eb26SStefan Assmann 724506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE 725506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Machine Check Exception" 726506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 727506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 728506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the 729506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). 730506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 731506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. 732506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the 733506f1d07SSam Ravnborg flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems 734506f1d07SSam Ravnborg have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is 735506f1d07SSam Ravnborg disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" 736506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a 737506f1d07SSam Ravnborg problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" 738506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like 739506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. 740506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 741506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_INTEL 7423c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7433c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Intel MCE features" 744506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 745506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 746506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 747506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the thermal monitor. 748506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 749506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_AMD 7503c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 7513c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "AMD MCE features" 752506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 753506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 754506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 755506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the DRAM Error Threshold. 756506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 757506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_NONFATAL 758506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" 759506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 760506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 761506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which 762506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. 763506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). 764506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. 765506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying 766506f1d07SSam Ravnborg or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. 767506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option only does something on certain CPUs. 768506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) 769506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 770506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MCE_P4THERMAL 771506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." 772efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) 773506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 774506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 775506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enters thermal throttling. 776506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 777506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig VM86 778506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED 779506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default y 780506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 781506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 782506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy 783506f1d07SSam Ravnborg code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like 784506f1d07SSam Ravnborg XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this 785506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option saves about 6k. 786506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 787506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig TOSHIBA 788506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 789506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 790506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 791506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 792506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 793506f1d07SSam Ravnborg not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 794506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 795506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 796506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 797506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 798506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 799506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 800506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 801506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 802506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 803506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig I8K 804506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "Dell laptop support" 805506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 806506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode 807506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode 808506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to 809506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control the fans on the I8K portables. 810506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 811506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may 812506f1d07SSam Ravnborg also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other 813506f1d07SSam Ravnborg models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at 814506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your own risk. 815506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 816506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 817506f1d07SSam Ravnborg I8K Linux utilities web site at: 818506f1d07SSam Ravnborg <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/> 819506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 820506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000. 821506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 822506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 823506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 8249ba16087SJan Beulich bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 8259ba16087SJan Beulich depends on X86_32 826506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 827506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 828506f1d07SSam Ravnborg in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 829506f1d07SSam Ravnborg some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 830506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 831506f1d07SSam Ravnborg system. 832506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 833506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 8345e3a77e9SFlorian Fainelli CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 835506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 836506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 837506f1d07SSam Ravnborg enable this option even if you don't need it. 838506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N otherwise. 839506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 840506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MICROCODE 8418d86f390SPeter Oruba tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support" 842506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select FW_LOADER 843506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 844506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on 84580cc9f10SPeter Oruba certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the 84680cc9f10SPeter Oruba IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, 84780cc9f10SPeter Oruba Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and 84880cc9f10SPeter Oruba 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra. 84980cc9f10SPeter Oruba You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself 85080cc9f10SPeter Oruba which is not shipped with the Linux kernel. 851506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8528d86f390SPeter Oruba This option selects the general module only, you need to select 8538d86f390SPeter Oruba at least one vendor specific module as well. 854506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 855506f1d07SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 856506f1d07SSam Ravnborg module will be called microcode. 857506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 8588d86f390SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_INTEL 85918dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" 8608d86f390SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 8618d86f390SPeter Oruba default MICROCODE 8628d86f390SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 8638d86f390SPeter Oruba --help--- 8648d86f390SPeter Oruba This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel 8658d86f390SPeter Oruba processors. 8668d86f390SPeter Oruba 8678d86f390SPeter Oruba For latest news and information on obtaining all the required 8688d86f390SPeter Oruba Intel ingredients for this driver, check: 8698d86f390SPeter Oruba <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. 8708d86f390SPeter Oruba 87180cc9f10SPeter Orubaconfig MICROCODE_AMD 87218dbc916SDmitry Adamushko bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" 87380cc9f10SPeter Oruba depends on MICROCODE 87480cc9f10SPeter Oruba select FW_LOADER 87580cc9f10SPeter Oruba --help--- 87680cc9f10SPeter Oruba If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD 87780cc9f10SPeter Oruba processors will be enabled. 87880cc9f10SPeter Oruba 879506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE 8803c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 881506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MICROCODE 882506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 883506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_MSR 884506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 885506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 886506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 887506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 888506f1d07SSam Ravnborg major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 889506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 890506f1d07SSam Ravnborg systems. 891506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 892506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_CPUID 893506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 894506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 895506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 896506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 897506f1d07SSam Ravnborg with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 898506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 899506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 900506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 901506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "High Memory Support" 902506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ 903506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ 904506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 905506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 906506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NOHIGHMEM 907506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "off" 908506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 909506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 910506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 911506f1d07SSam Ravnborg However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 912506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 913506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 914506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 915506f1d07SSam Ravnborg "high memory". 916506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 917506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 918506f1d07SSam Ravnborg more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 919506f1d07SSam Ravnborg choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 920506f1d07SSam Ravnborg split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 921506f1d07SSam Ravnborg space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 922506f1d07SSam Ravnborg by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 923506f1d07SSam Ravnborg possible. 924506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 925506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 926506f1d07SSam Ravnborg answer "4GB" here. 927506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 928506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 929506f1d07SSam Ravnborg selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 930506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 931506f1d07SSam Ravnborg supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 932506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 933506f1d07SSam Ravnborg then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 934506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 935506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 936506f1d07SSam Ravnborg auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 937506f1d07SSam Ravnborg such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 938506f1d07SSam Ravnborg your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 939506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel at boot time.) 940506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 941506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say "off". 942506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 943506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM4G 944506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "4GB" 945506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_NUMAQ 946506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 947506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 948506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 949506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 950506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM64G 951506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "64GB" 952506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !M386 && !M486 953506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select X86_PAE 954506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 955506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 956506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gigabytes of physical RAM. 957506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 958506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 959506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 960506f1d07SSam Ravnborgchoice 961506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 962506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED 963506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default VMSPLIT_3G 964506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 965506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 966506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 967506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 968506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 969506f1d07SSam Ravnborg physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 970506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 971506f1d07SSam Ravnborg than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 972506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 973506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available to user programs, making the address space there 974506f1d07SSam Ravnborg tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 975506f1d07SSam Ravnborg will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 976506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel modules. 977506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 978506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 979506f1d07SSam Ravnborg option alone! 980506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 981506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G 982506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 983506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 984506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 985506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 986506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G 987506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 988506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 989506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_PAE 990506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 991506f1d07SSam Ravnborg config VMSPLIT_1G 992506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 993506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendchoice 994506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 995506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PAGE_OFFSET 996506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 997506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 998506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 999506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1000506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1001506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default 0xC0000000 1002506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 1003506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1004506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHMEM 10053c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1006506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1007506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1008506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_PAE 10099ba16087SJan Beulich bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1010506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G 1011506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1012506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1013506f1d07SSam Ravnborg larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1014506f1d07SSam Ravnborg has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1015506f1d07SSam Ravnborg consumes more pagetable space per process. 1016506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1017600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1018600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE 1019600715dcSJeremy Fitzhardinge 10209e899816SNick Pigginconfig DIRECT_GBPAGES 10219e899816SNick Piggin bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED 10229e899816SNick Piggin default y 10239e899816SNick Piggin depends on X86_64 10249e899816SNick Piggin help 10259e899816SNick Piggin Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that 10269e899816SNick Piggin support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by 10279e899816SNick Piggin reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". 10289e899816SNick Piggin 1029506f1d07SSam Ravnborg# Common NUMA Features 1030506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA 1031fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1032506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on SMP 1033604d2055SRafael J. Wysocki depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) 1034506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default n if X86_PC 10350699eae1SYinghai Lu default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) 1036506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1037506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. 1038fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1039506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1040506f1d07SSam Ravnborg local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1041506f1d07SSam Ravnborg NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1042506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1043c280ea5eSIngo Molnar For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1044fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1045fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1046fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms 1047fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you 1048fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1049fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro 1050fd51b2d7SKOSAKI Motohiro Otherwise, you should say N. 1051506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1052506f1d07SSam Ravnborgcomment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" 1053506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) 1054506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1055506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NUMA 10563c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10573c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1058506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 1059506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1060506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1061506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old 1062506f1d07SSam Ravnborg method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin 1063506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1064506f1d07SSam Ravnborg instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1065506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1066506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10673c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 10683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1069506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1070506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select ACPI_NUMA 1071506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1072506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1073506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 10746ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span 10756ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and 10766ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not 10776ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone() 10786ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha# for details. 10796ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddhaconfig NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES 10806ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha def_bool y 10816ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 10826ec6e0d9SSuresh Siddha 1083506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NUMA_EMU 1084506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "NUMA emulation" 1085506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && NUMA 1086506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1087506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split 1088506f1d07SSam Ravnborg into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the 1089506f1d07SSam Ravnborg number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. 1090506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1091506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NODES_SHIFT 1092d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1093efac4189SThomas Gleixner range 1 9 if X86_64 1094d25e26b6SLinus Torvalds default "9" if MAXSMP 1095506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "6" if X86_64 1096506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "4" if X86_NUMAQ 1097506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "3" 1098506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES 10991184dc2fSMike Travis help 11001184dc2fSMike Travis Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 11011184dc2fSMike Travis system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. 1102506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1103506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE 11043c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1105506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1106506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1107506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT 11083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1109506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM 1110506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1111506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE 11123c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1113506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM) 1114506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1115506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP 11163c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1117506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && NUMA 1118506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1119506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1120506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 112199809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA 1122506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1123506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE 1124506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1125b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1126506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1127506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT 1128506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1129b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on NUMA && X86_32 1130b263295dSChristoph Lameter 1131b263295dSChristoph Lameterconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1132b263295dSChristoph Lameter def_bool y 1133b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on X86_64 1134506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1135506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1136506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 113799809963SJeff Chua depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC) || X86_GENERICARCH 1138506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1139506f1d07SSam Ravnborg select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1140506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1141506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1142506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1143b263295dSChristoph Lameter depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1144506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1145506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1146506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1147506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1148506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1149506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource "mm/Kconfig" 1150506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1151506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HIGHPTE 1152506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1153506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) 1154506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1155506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1156506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1157506f1d07SSam Ravnborg low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1158506f1d07SSam Ravnborg entries in high memory. 1159506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 11609f077871SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 11619f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Check for low memory corruption" 11629f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 11639f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 11649f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 11659f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 11669f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 11679f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 11689f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 11699f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 11709f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. 11719f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11729f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 11739f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 11749f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 11759f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge and prevents it from affecting the running system. 11769f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 11779f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 11789f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 11799f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 11809f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge memory. 11819f077871SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1182c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1183c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1184c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1185c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 1186c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 1187c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1188c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge on or off. 1189c885df50SJeremy Fitzhardinge 1190fc381519SIngo Molnarconfig X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K 1191fc381519SIngo Molnar bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" 1192fc381519SIngo Molnar default y 1193fc381519SIngo Molnar help 1194fc381519SIngo Molnar Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known 1195fc381519SIngo Molnar to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are 1196fc381519SIngo Molnar known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not 1197fc381519SIngo Molnar be used by the kernel. 1198fc381519SIngo Molnar 1199fc381519SIngo Molnar Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS 1200fc381519SIngo Molnar to get all its memory reservations and usages right. 1201fc381519SIngo Molnar 1202fc381519SIngo Molnar If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not 1203fc381519SIngo Molnar work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug 1204fc381519SIngo Molnar events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable 1205fc381519SIngo Molnar X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical 1206fc381519SIngo Molnar corruption patterns. 1207fc381519SIngo Molnar 1208fc381519SIngo Molnar Say Y if unsure. 1209fc381519SIngo Molnar 1210506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MATH_EMULATION 1211506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool 1212506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 1213506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1214506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1215506f1d07SSam Ravnborg operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1216506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1217506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1218506f1d07SSam Ravnborg give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1219506f1d07SSam Ravnborg coprocessor or this emulation. 1220506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1221506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1222506f1d07SSam Ravnborg say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1223506f1d07SSam Ravnborg be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1224506f1d07SSam Ravnborg command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1225506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1226506f1d07SSam Ravnborg loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1227506f1d07SSam Ravnborg boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1228506f1d07SSam Ravnborg intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1229506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1230506f1d07SSam Ravnborg More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1231506f1d07SSam Ravnborg emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1232506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1233506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1234506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel, it won't hurt. 1235506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1236506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig MTRR 1237506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" 1238506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1239506f1d07SSam Ravnborg On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1240506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1241506f1d07SSam Ravnborg processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1242506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1243506f1d07SSam Ravnborg allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1244506f1d07SSam Ravnborg before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1245506f1d07SSam Ravnborg of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1246506f1d07SSam Ravnborg /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1247506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1248506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1249506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1250506f1d07SSam Ravnborg control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1251506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as well: 1252506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1253506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1254506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1255506f1d07SSam Ravnborg these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1256506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1257506f1d07SSam Ravnborg MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1258506f1d07SSam Ravnborg write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1259506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1260506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1261506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1262506f1d07SSam Ravnborg set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1263506f1d07SSam Ravnborg can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1264506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1265506f1d07SSam Ravnborg You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1266506f1d07SSam Ravnborg just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1267506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 12687225e751SRandy Dunlap See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1269506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 127095ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER 12712ffb3501SYinghai Lu def_bool y 127295ffa243SYinghai Lu prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 127395ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR 127495ffa243SYinghai Lu help 1275aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1276aba3728cSThomas Gleixner add writeback entries. 127795ffa243SYinghai Lu 1278aba3728cSThomas Gleixner Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1279aba3728cSThomas Gleixner The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with 1280aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_chunk_size. 128195ffa243SYinghai Lu 12822ffb3501SYinghai Lu If unsure, say Y. 128395ffa243SYinghai Lu 128495ffa243SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1285f5098d62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1286f5098d62SYinghai Lu range 0 1 1287f5098d62SYinghai Lu default "0" 128895ffa243SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 128995ffa243SYinghai Lu help 1290f5098d62SYinghai Lu Enable mtrr cleanup default value 129195ffa243SYinghai Lu 129212031a62SYinghai Luconfig MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 129312031a62SYinghai Lu int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 129412031a62SYinghai Lu range 0 7 129512031a62SYinghai Lu default "1" 129612031a62SYinghai Lu depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 129712031a62SYinghai Lu help 129812031a62SYinghai Lu mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1299aba3728cSThomas Gleixner mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 130012031a62SYinghai Lu 13012e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.comconfig X86_PAT 13022a8a2719SIngo Molnar bool 13032e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com prompt "x86 PAT support" 13042a8a2719SIngo Molnar depends on MTRR 13052e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com help 13062e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1307042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi 13082e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 13092e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com flexible than MTRRs. 13102e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13112e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1312042b78e4SVenki Pallipadi spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 13132e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 13142e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com If unsure, say Y. 13152e5d9c85Svenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 1316506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig EFI 13179ba16087SJan Beulich bool "EFI runtime service support" 13185b83683fSHuang, Ying depends on ACPI 1319506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 13208b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1321506f1d07SSam Ravnborg available (such as the EFI variable services). 1322506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 13238b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 13248b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 13258b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 13268b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 13278b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 13288b2cb7a8SHuang, Ying platforms. 1329506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1330506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig SECCOMP 13313c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 13323c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" 1333506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1334506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications 1335506f1d07SSam Ravnborg that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their 1336506f1d07SSam Ravnborg execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to 1337506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write 1338506f1d07SSam Ravnborg syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in 1339506f1d07SSam Ravnborg their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is 13409c0bbee8SAlexey Dobriyan enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled 1341506f1d07SSam Ravnborg and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls 1342506f1d07SSam Ravnborg defined by each seccomp mode. 1343506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1344506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. 1345506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1346506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1347506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13482c020a99SLinus Torvalds depends on X86_64 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1349506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1350506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This 1351506f1d07SSam Ravnborg feature puts, at the beginning of critical functions, a canary 1352506f1d07SSam Ravnborg value on the stack just before the return address, and validates 1353506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer 1354506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also 1355506f1d07SSam Ravnborg overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then 1356506f1d07SSam Ravnborg neutralized via a kernel panic. 1357506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1358506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution 1359506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically 1360506f1d07SSam Ravnborg detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored. 1361506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1362506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 1363506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Use stack-protector for all functions" 1364506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR 1365506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1366506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for 1367506f1d07SSam Ravnborg functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling 1368506f1d07SSam Ravnborg this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions. 1369506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1370506f1d07SSam Ravnborgsource kernel/Kconfig.hz 1371506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1372506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig KEXEC 1373506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "kexec system call" 13743e8f7e35SIngo Molnar depends on X86_BIOS_REBOOT 1375506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1376506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your 1377506f1d07SSam Ravnborg current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot 1378506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot 1379506f1d07SSam Ravnborg you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. 1380506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1381506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call. 1382506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1383506f1d07SSam Ravnborg It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine 1384506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not 1385506f1d07SSam Ravnborg initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging 1386506f1d07SSam Ravnborg support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is 1387506f1d07SSam Ravnborg strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. 1388506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1389506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig CRASH_DUMP 139004b69447SPavel Machek bool "kernel crash dumps" 1391506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1392506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1393506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. 1394506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels 1395506f1d07SSam Ravnborg which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into 1396506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a specially reserved region and then later executed after 1397506f1d07SSam Ravnborg a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled 1398506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using 1399506f1d07SSam Ravnborg PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image 1400506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). 1401506f1d07SSam Ravnborg For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 1402506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 14033ab83521SHuang Yingconfig KEXEC_JUMP 14043ab83521SHuang Ying bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14053ab83521SHuang Ying depends on EXPERIMENTAL 140689081d17SHuang Ying depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 14073ab83521SHuang Ying help 140889081d17SHuang Ying Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke 140989081d17SHuang Ying code in physical address mode via KEXEC 14103ab83521SHuang Ying 1411506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_START 1412506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) 1413506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ 1414506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1415506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" 1416506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1417506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 1418506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1419506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then 1420506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and 1421506f1d07SSam Ravnborg run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where 1422506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical 1423506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. 1424506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1425506f1d07SSam Ravnborg In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 1426506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 1427506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 1428506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 1429506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 1430506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 1431506f1d07SSam Ravnborg to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 1432506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 1433506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1434506f1d07SSam Ravnborg So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave 1435506f1d07SSam Ravnborg the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. 1436506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump 1437506f1d07SSam Ravnborg change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB 1438506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as 1439506f1d07SSam Ravnborg specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter 1440506f1d07SSam Ravnborg passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as 1441506f1d07SSam Ravnborg crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at 1442506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. 1443506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1444506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 1445506f1d07SSam Ravnborg one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 1446506f1d07SSam Ravnborg as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 1447506f1d07SSam Ravnborg gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 1448506f1d07SSam Ravnborg is present because there are users out there who continue to use 1449506f1d07SSam Ravnborg vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 1450506f1d07SSam Ravnborg line. 1451506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1452506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1453506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1454506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig RELOCATABLE 1455506f1d07SSam Ravnborg bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1456506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1457506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1458506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 1459506f1d07SSam Ravnborg so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 1460506f1d07SSam Ravnborg The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 1461506f1d07SSam Ravnborg but are discarded at runtime. 1462506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1463506f1d07SSam Ravnborg One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 1464506f1d07SSam Ravnborg must live at a different physical address than the primary 1465506f1d07SSam Ravnborg kernel. 1466506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1467506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 1468506f1d07SSam Ravnborg it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 1469506f1d07SSam Ravnborg (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored. 1470506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1471506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig PHYSICAL_ALIGN 1472506f1d07SSam Ravnborg hex 1473506f1d07SSam Ravnborg prompt "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32 1474506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x100000" if X86_32 1475506f1d07SSam Ravnborg default "0x200000" if X86_64 1476506f1d07SSam Ravnborg range 0x2000 0x400000 1477506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1478506f1d07SSam Ravnborg This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 1479506f1d07SSam Ravnborg where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 1480506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address which meets above alignment restriction. 1481506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1482506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1483506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 1484506f1d07SSam Ravnborg address aligned to above value and run from there. 1485506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1486506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 1487506f1d07SSam Ravnborg CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 1488506f1d07SSam Ravnborg load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 1489506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 1490506f1d07SSam Ravnborg compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 1491506f1d07SSam Ravnborg end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 1492506f1d07SSam Ravnborg above alignment restrictions. 1493506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1494506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 1495506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1496506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HOTPLUG_CPU 14977c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" 14987c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && !X86_VOYAGER 1499506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 15007c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be 15017c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. 15027c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich ( Note: power management support will enable this option 15037c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich automatically on SMP systems. ) 15047c13e6a3SDimitri Sivanich Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. 1505506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1506506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_VDSO 15073c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 15083c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Compat VDSO support" 1509af65d648SRoland McGrath depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION 1510506f1d07SSam Ravnborg help 1511af65d648SRoland McGrath Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. 1512506f1d07SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1513506f1d07SSam Ravnborg Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc 1514506f1d07SSam Ravnborg version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped 1515506f1d07SSam Ravnborg VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO. 1516506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1517506f1d07SSam Ravnborg If unsure, say Y. 1518506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1519516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_BOOL 1520516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in kernel command line" 1521516cbf37STim Bird default n 1522516cbf37STim Bird help 1523516cbf37STim Bird Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 1524516cbf37STim Bird build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 1525516cbf37STim Bird necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 1526516cbf37STim Bird kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 1527516cbf37STim Bird to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 1528516cbf37STim Bird 1529516cbf37STim Bird To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 1530516cbf37STim Bird set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 1531516cbf37STim Bird the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 1532516cbf37STim Bird 1533516cbf37STim Bird Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 1534516cbf37STim Bird should leave this option set to 'N'. 1535516cbf37STim Bird 1536516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE 1537516cbf37STim Bird string "Built-in kernel command string" 1538516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1539516cbf37STim Bird default "" 1540516cbf37STim Bird help 1541516cbf37STim Bird Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 1542516cbf37STim Bird image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 1543516cbf37STim Bird command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 1544516cbf37STim Bird form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 1545516cbf37STim Bird 1546516cbf37STim Bird However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 1547516cbf37STim Bird change this behavior. 1548516cbf37STim Bird 1549516cbf37STim Bird In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 1550516cbf37STim Bird by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 1551516cbf37STim Bird file system. 1552516cbf37STim Bird 1553516cbf37STim Birdconfig CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 1554516cbf37STim Bird bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 1555516cbf37STim Bird default n 1556516cbf37STim Bird depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 1557516cbf37STim Bird help 1558516cbf37STim Bird Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 1559516cbf37STim Bird command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 1560516cbf37STim Bird 1561516cbf37STim Bird This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 1562516cbf37STim Bird be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 1563516cbf37STim Bird 1564506f1d07SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1565506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1566506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1567506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1568506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 1569506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 157035551053SGary Hadeconfig ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 157135551053SGary Hade def_bool y 157235551053SGary Hade depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 157335551053SGary Hade 1574506f1d07SSam Ravnborgconfig HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID 1575506f1d07SSam Ravnborg def_bool X86_64 1576506f1d07SSam Ravnborg depends on NUMA 1577506f1d07SSam Ravnborg 1578da85f865SBjorn Helgaasmenu "Power management and ACPI options" 1579e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1580e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1581e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 15823c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1583e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION 1584e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1585e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "kernel/power/Kconfig" 1586e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1587e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 1588e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1589a6b68076SAndi Kleenconfig X86_APM_BOOT 1590a6b68076SAndi Kleen bool 1591a6b68076SAndi Kleen default y 1592a6b68076SAndi Kleen depends on APM || APM_MODULE 1593a6b68076SAndi Kleen 1594e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenuconfig APM 1595e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 1596efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 1597e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1598e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 1599e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 1600e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 1601e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 1602e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 1603e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 1604e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1605e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 1606e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 1607e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1608e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 1609e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg machines with more than one CPU. 1610e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1611e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 161253471121SRandy Dunlap and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the 1613e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 1614e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1615e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1616e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 1617e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 1618e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 1619e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1620e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 1621e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 1622e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 1623e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 1624e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1625e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 1626e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 1627e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 1628e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 1629e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg APM in your BIOS). 1630e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1631e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 1632e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg "weird" problems: 1633e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1634e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 1635e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg enabled. 1636e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel 1637e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 1638e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the "no387" option to the kernel 1639e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 1640e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 1641e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 1642e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 1643e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 1644e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 1645e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 1646e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 10) install a better fan for the CPU 1647e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 11) exchange RAM chips 1648e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 12) exchange the motherboard. 1649e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1650e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1651e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg module will be called apm. 1652e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1653e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif APM 1654e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1655e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 1656e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 1657e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1658e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 1659e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 1660e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 1661e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1662e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DO_ENABLE 1663e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable PM at boot time" 1664e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1665e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 1666e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 1667e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 1668e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 1669e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 1670e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 1671e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 1672e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 1673e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 1674e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 1675e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 1676e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 1677e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this feature. 1678e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1679e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_CPU_IDLE 1680e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 1681e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1682e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 1683e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 1684e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 1685e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 1686e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 1687e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 1688e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg this option does nothing.) 1689e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1690e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 1691e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 1692e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1693e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 1694e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 1695e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 1696e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 1697e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 1698e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 1699e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 1700e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 1701e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg especially if you are using gpm. 1702e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1703e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig APM_ALLOW_INTS 1704e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 1705e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1706e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 1707e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 1708e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 1709e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 1710e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 1711e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 1712e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1713e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendif # APM 1714e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1715e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig" 1716e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1717e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 1718e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 171927471fdbSAndy Henroidsource "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 172027471fdbSAndy Henroid 1721e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1722e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1723e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1724e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 1725e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1726e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI 17271ac97018SIngo Molnar bool "PCI support" 17281c858087SAdrian Bunk default y 1729e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) 1730e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1731e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a 1732e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside 1733e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or 1734e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N. 1735e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1736e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgchoice 1737e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg prompt "PCI access mode" 1738efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI 1739e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default PCI_GOANY 1740e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1741e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 1742e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 1743e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 1744e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 1745e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 1746e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1747e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 1748e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 1749e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 1750e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 1751e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 1752e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 1753e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 1754e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1755e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOBIOS 1756e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "BIOS" 1757e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1758e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GOMMCONFIG 1759e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "MMConfig" 1760e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1761e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_GODIRECT 1762e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Direct" 1763e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17643ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOOLPC 17653ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "OLPC" 17663ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon depends on OLPC 17673ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 17682bdd1b03SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_GOANY 17692bdd1b03SAndres Salomon bool "Any" 17702bdd1b03SAndres Salomon 1771e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendchoice 1772e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1773e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_BIOS 17743c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1775efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 1776e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1777e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 1778e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DIRECT 17793c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1780efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC)) 1781e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1782e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 17833c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1784e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_32 && PCI && ACPI && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY) 1785e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 17863ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig PCI_OLPC 17872bdd1b03SAndres Salomon def_bool y 17882bdd1b03SAndres Salomon depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 17893ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1790e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_DOMAINS 17913c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1792e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on PCI 1793e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1794e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig PCI_MMCONFIG 1795e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" 1796e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI 1797e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1798e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR 1799e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1800e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 1801e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1802e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address 1803e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. 1804e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables 1805e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA 1806e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg remapping devices. 1807e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18080cd5c3c8SKyle McMartinconfig DMAR_DEFAULT_ON 1809f6be37fdSKyle McMartin def_bool y 18100cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default" 18110cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin depends on DMAR 18120cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin help 18130cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if 18140cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can 18150cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is 18160cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains 18170cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin experimental. 18180cd5c3c8SKyle McMartin 1819e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_GFX_WA 18203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 18213c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" 1822e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1823e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1824e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address 1825e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config 1826e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for 1827e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue 1828e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg to use physical addresses for DMA. 1829e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1830e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig DMAR_FLOPPY_WA 18313c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1832e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on DMAR 1833e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1834e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls 1835e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This 1836e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first 1837e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. 1838e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 18399fa8c481SSuresh Siddhaconfig INTR_REMAP 18409fa8c481SSuresh Siddha bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18419fa8c481SSuresh Siddha depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL 18429fa8c481SSuresh Siddha help 18439fa8c481SSuresh Siddha Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. 18449fa8c481SSuresh Siddha To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or 18459fa8c481SSuresh Siddha to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. 18469fa8c481SSuresh Siddha 1847e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" 1848e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1849e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/Kconfig" 1850e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1851e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg# x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA. 1852e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA_DMA_API 18533c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1854e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1855e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgif X86_32 1856e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1857e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig ISA 1858e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "ISA support" 1859efefa6f6SIngo Molnar depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1860e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1861e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 1862e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 1863e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 1864e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 1865e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 1866e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1867e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig EISA 1868e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "EISA support" 1869e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on ISA 1870e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg ---help--- 1871e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was 1872e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. 1873e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1874e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel 1875e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for 1876e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1877e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. 1878e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1879e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine. 1880e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1881e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Otherwise, say N. 1882e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1883e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" 1884e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1885e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig MCA 1886efefa6f6SIngo Molnar bool "MCA support" if !X86_VOYAGER 1887e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y if X86_VOYAGER 1888e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1889e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and 1890e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See 1891e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given 1892e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel. 1893e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1894e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/mca/Kconfig" 1895e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1896e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200 1897e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 1898e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on !X86_VOYAGER 1899e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1900e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 1901e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 1902e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 1903e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg for other scx200_* drivers. 1904e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1905e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 1906e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1907e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SCx200HR_TIMER 1908e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 1909e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME 1910e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg default y 1911e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1912e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 1913e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 1914e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 1915e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 1916e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 1917e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1918e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER 19193c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 19203c2362e6SHarvey Harrison prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" 1921e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 1922e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1923e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT 1924e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. 1925e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the 1926e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg generic PIT, and are suitable for use as high-res timers. 1927e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 19283ef0e1f8SAndres Salomonconfig OLPC 19293ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 19303ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon default n 19313ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon help 19323ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 19333ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon XO hardware. 19343ef0e1f8SAndres Salomon 1935bc0120fdSSam Ravnborgendif # X86_32 1936bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg 1937e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig K8_NB 1938e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool y 1939bc0120fdSSam Ravnborg depends on AGP_AMD64 || (X86_64 && (GART_IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA))) 1940e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1941e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig" 1942e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1943e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig" 1944e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1945e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1946e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1947e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1948e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgmenu "Executable file formats / Emulations" 1949e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1950e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" 1951e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1952e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_EMULATION 1953e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg bool "IA32 Emulation" 1954e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1955a97f52e6SRoland McGrath select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF 1956e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1957e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should 1958e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 1959e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 32-bit programs left. 1960e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1961e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig IA32_AOUT 1962e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg tristate "IA32 a.out support" 19636b213e1bSDavid Woodhouse depends on IA32_EMULATION 1964e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg help 1965e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. 1966e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1967e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT 19683c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1969e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on IA32_EMULATION 1970e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1971e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 1972e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg def_bool COMPAT 1973e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg depends on X86_64 1974e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1975e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgconfig SYSVIPC_COMPAT 19763c2362e6SHarvey Harrison def_bool y 1977b8992195SAlexey Dobriyan depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC 1978e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1979e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgendmenu 1980e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1981e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1982e5beae16SKeith Packardconfig HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 1983e5beae16SKeith Packard def_bool y 1984e5beae16SKeith Packard depends on X86_32 1985e5beae16SKeith Packard 1986e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "net/Kconfig" 1987e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1988e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/Kconfig" 1989e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1990e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "drivers/firmware/Kconfig" 1991e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1992e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "fs/Kconfig" 1993e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1994e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug" 1995e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1996e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "security/Kconfig" 1997e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 1998e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "crypto/Kconfig" 1999e279b6c1SSam Ravnborg 2000edf88417SAvi Kivitysource "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 2001edf88417SAvi Kivity 2002e279b6c1SSam Ravnborgsource "lib/Kconfig" 2003