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1b2441318SGreg Kroah-Hartman# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2edf88417SAvi Kivity#
3edf88417SAvi Kivity# KVM configuration
4edf88417SAvi Kivity#
5edf88417SAvi Kivity
60ba12d10SAvi Kivitysource "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
75d9b8e30SAvi Kivity
8edf88417SAvi Kivitymenuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
9edf88417SAvi Kivity	bool "Virtualization"
10edf88417SAvi Kivity	default y
11a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
12edf88417SAvi Kivity	  Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
13edf88417SAvi Kivity	  operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
14edf88417SAvi Kivity	  This option alone does not add any kernel code.
15edf88417SAvi Kivity
16edf88417SAvi Kivity	  If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
17edf88417SAvi Kivity
18edf88417SAvi Kivityif VIRTUALIZATION
19edf88417SAvi Kivity
20ea4290d7SPaolo Bonziniconfig KVM_X86
219ee62c33SSean Christopherson	def_tristate KVM if (KVM_INTEL != n || KVM_AMD != n)
22caadf876SPaolo Bonzini	select KVM_COMMON
23f128cf8cSSean Christopherson	select KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
24b9883ee4SSean Christopherson	select KVM_ELIDE_TLB_FLUSH_IF_YOUNG
25*b146a9b3SSean Christopherson	select KVM_MMU_LOCKLESS_AGING
260ba12d10SAvi Kivity	select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
27982ed0deSDavid Woodhouse	select HAVE_KVM_PFNCACHE
2817601bfeSMarc Zyngier	select HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_TSO
29fc0693d4SMarc Zyngier	select HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_ACQ_REL
3087276880SFeng Wu	select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS
31a725d56aSAlexander Graf	select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
328886640dSPaolo Bonzini	select HAVE_KVM_READONLY_MEM
33d96c77bdSPaolo Bonzini	select VHOST_TASK
34af585b92SGleb Natapov	select KVM_ASYNC_PF
3518863bddSAvi Kivity	select USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
3650eb2a3cSAvi Kivity	select KVM_MMIO
3763b3f96eSPeter Zijlstra	select SCHED_INFO
38f5132b01SGleb Natapov	select PERF_EVENTS
392aef6f30SSean Christopherson	select GUEST_PERF_EVENTS
4007975ad3SJan Kiszka	select HAVE_KVM_MSI
41f2a74347SRaghavendra K T	select HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
422d5ba19bSMarcelo Tosatti	select HAVE_KVM_NO_POLL
4372c3c0feSThomas Gleixner	select KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK
44e108ff2fSPaolo Bonzini	select KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
45ec53500fSAlex Williamson	select KVM_VFIO
467d62874fSSergey Senozhatsky	select HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER if PM
47441f7bfaSSean Christopherson	select KVM_GENERIC_HARDWARE_ENABLING
486e01b760SPaolo Bonzini	select KVM_GENERIC_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
49ea4290d7SPaolo Bonzini	select KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM if KVM_SW_PROTECTED_VM
5076d5363cSSean Christopherson	select KVM_WERROR if WERROR
51ea4290d7SPaolo Bonzini
52ea4290d7SPaolo Bonziniconfig KVM
53ea4290d7SPaolo Bonzini	tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
541331343aSArnd Bergmann	depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
55a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
56edf88417SAvi Kivity	  Support hosting fully virtualized guest machines using hardware
57edf88417SAvi Kivity	  virtualization extensions.  You will need a fairly recent
58edf88417SAvi Kivity	  processor equipped with virtualization extensions. You will also
59edf88417SAvi Kivity	  need to select one or more of the processor modules below.
60edf88417SAvi Kivity
61edf88417SAvi Kivity	  This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
62edf88417SAvi Kivity	  a character device node named /dev/kvm.
63edf88417SAvi Kivity
64edf88417SAvi Kivity	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
65edf88417SAvi Kivity	  will be called kvm.
66edf88417SAvi Kivity
67edf88417SAvi Kivity	  If unsure, say N.
68edf88417SAvi Kivity
694f337fafSPaolo Bonziniconfig KVM_WERROR
704f337fafSPaolo Bonzini	bool "Compile KVM with -Werror"
7175bedc1eSSean Christopherson	# Disallow KVM's -Werror if KASAN is enabled, e.g. to guard against
7275bedc1eSSean Christopherson	# randomized configs from selecting KVM_WERROR=y, which doesn't play
7375bedc1eSSean Christopherson	# nice with KASAN.  KASAN builds generates warnings for the default
7475bedc1eSSean Christopherson	# FRAME_WARN, i.e. KVM_WERROR=y with KASAN=y requires special tuning.
7575bedc1eSSean Christopherson	# Building KVM with -Werror and KASAN is still doable via enabling
7675bedc1eSSean Christopherson	# the kernel-wide WERROR=y.
7776d5363cSSean Christopherson	depends on KVM && ((EXPERT && !KASAN) || WERROR)
784f337fafSPaolo Bonzini	help
79a754acc3SJason A. Donenfeld	  Add -Werror to the build flags for KVM.
804f337fafSPaolo Bonzini
814f337fafSPaolo Bonzini	  If in doubt, say "N".
824f337fafSPaolo Bonzini
8389ea60c2SSean Christophersonconfig KVM_SW_PROTECTED_VM
8489ea60c2SSean Christopherson	bool "Enable support for KVM software-protected VMs"
8589ea60c2SSean Christopherson	depends on EXPERT
8678328801SPaolo Bonzini	depends on KVM && X86_64
8789ea60c2SSean Christopherson	help
8842269209SSean Christopherson	  Enable support for KVM software-protected VMs.  Currently, software-
8942269209SSean Christopherson	  protected VMs are purely a development and testing vehicle for
9042269209SSean Christopherson	  KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD.  Attempting to run a "real" VM workload as a
9142269209SSean Christopherson	  software-protected VM will fail miserably.
9289ea60c2SSean Christopherson
9389ea60c2SSean Christopherson	  If unsure, say "N".
9489ea60c2SSean Christopherson
95edf88417SAvi Kivityconfig KVM_INTEL
968f63aaf5SSean Christopherson	tristate "KVM for Intel (and compatible) processors support"
978f63aaf5SSean Christopherson	depends on KVM && IA32_FEAT_CTL
98a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
998f63aaf5SSean Christopherson	  Provides support for KVM on processors equipped with Intel's VT
1008f63aaf5SSean Christopherson	  extensions, a.k.a. Virtual Machine Extensions (VMX).
101edf88417SAvi Kivity
10258f8ac27SRobert P. J. Day	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
10358f8ac27SRobert P. J. Day	  will be called kvm-intel.
10458f8ac27SRobert P. J. Day
1058131cf5bSIsaku Yamahataconfig KVM_INTEL_PROVE_VE
1068131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata        bool "Check that guests do not receive #VE exceptions"
1076af6142eSSean Christopherson        depends on KVM_INTEL && EXPERT
1088131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata        help
1098131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata          Checks that KVM's page table management code will not incorrectly
1108131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata          let guests receive a virtualization exception.  Virtualization
1118131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata          exceptions will be trapped by the hypervisor rather than injected
1128131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata          in the guest.
1138131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata
1146af6142eSSean Christopherson          Note: some CPUs appear to generate spurious EPT Violations #VEs
1156af6142eSSean Christopherson          that trigger KVM's WARN, in particular with eptad=0 and/or nested
1166af6142eSSean Christopherson          virtualization.
1176af6142eSSean Christopherson
1188131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata          If unsure, say N.
1198131cf5bSIsaku Yamahata
120540745ddSSean Christophersonconfig X86_SGX_KVM
121540745ddSSean Christopherson	bool "Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) Virtualization"
122540745ddSSean Christopherson	depends on X86_SGX && KVM_INTEL
123540745ddSSean Christopherson	help
124540745ddSSean Christopherson
125540745ddSSean Christopherson	  Enables KVM guests to create SGX enclaves.
126540745ddSSean Christopherson
127540745ddSSean Christopherson	  This includes support to expose "raw" unreclaimable enclave memory to
128540745ddSSean Christopherson	  guests via a device node, e.g. /dev/sgx_vepc.
129540745ddSSean Christopherson
130540745ddSSean Christopherson	  If unsure, say N.
131540745ddSSean Christopherson
132edf88417SAvi Kivityconfig KVM_AMD
133edf88417SAvi Kivity	tristate "KVM for AMD processors support"
134554856b6SSean Christopherson	depends on KVM && (CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_HYGON)
135a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
136edf88417SAvi Kivity	  Provides support for KVM on AMD processors equipped with the AMD-V
137edf88417SAvi Kivity	  (SVM) extensions.
138edf88417SAvi Kivity
13958f8ac27SRobert P. J. Day	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
14058f8ac27SRobert P. J. Day	  will be called kvm-amd.
14158f8ac27SRobert P. J. Day
1425dd0a57cSBrijesh Singhconfig KVM_AMD_SEV
1435dd0a57cSBrijesh Singh	bool "AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) support"
144cd14b018SMasahiro Yamada	default y
1455dd0a57cSBrijesh Singh	depends on KVM_AMD && X86_64
146d30f370dSJanakarajan Natarajan	depends on CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP && !(KVM_AMD=y && CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD=m)
14754f5f47bSBorislav Petkov (AMD)	select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
148a8e31983SMichael Roth	select KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM
149564429a6SPaolo Bonzini	select HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_PREPARE
150564429a6SPaolo Bonzini	select HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_INVALIDATE
151a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada	help
1525fa9f048SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Provides support for launching encrypted VMs which use Secure
1535fa9f048SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), Secure Encrypted Virtualization with
1545fa9f048SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Encrypted State (SEV-ES), and Secure Encrypted Virtualization with
1555fa9f048SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) technologies on AMD processors.
1565dd0a57cSBrijesh Singh
1574b8e1b32SPaolo Bonziniconfig KVM_SMM
1584b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	bool "System Management Mode emulation"
1594b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	default y
1604b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	depends on KVM
1614b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	help
1624b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	  Provides support for KVM to emulate System Management Mode (SMM)
1634b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	  in virtual machines.  This can be used by the virtual machine
1644b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	  firmware to implement UEFI secure boot.
1654b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini
1664b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini	  If unsure, say Y.
1674b8e1b32SPaolo Bonzini
168b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsovconfig KVM_HYPERV
169b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	bool "Support for Microsoft Hyper-V emulation"
170b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	depends on KVM
171b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	default y
172b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	help
173b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Provides KVM support for emulating Microsoft Hyper-V.  This allows KVM
174b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  to expose a subset of the paravirtualized interfaces defined in the
175b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  Hyper-V Hypervisor Top-Level Functional Specification (TLFS):
176b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/tlfs
177b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  These interfaces are required for the correct and performant functioning
178b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  of Windows and Hyper-V guests on KVM.
179b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov
180b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov	  If unsure, say "Y".
181b4f69df0SVitaly Kuznetsov
182b59b153dSPaolo Bonziniconfig KVM_XEN
183b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini	bool "Support for Xen hypercall interface"
184b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini	depends on KVM
185b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini	help
186b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini	  Provides KVM support for the hosting Xen HVM guests and
187b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini	  passing Xen hypercalls to userspace.
188b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini
189b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini	  If in doubt, say "N".
190b59b153dSPaolo Bonzini
191870d4d4eSSean Christophersonconfig KVM_PROVE_MMU
192870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	bool "Prove KVM MMU correctness"
193870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
194870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	depends on KVM
195870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	depends on EXPERT
196870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	help
197870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	  Enables runtime assertions in KVM's MMU that are too costly to enable
198870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	  in anything remotely resembling a production environment, e.g. this
199870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	  gates code that verifies a to-be-freed page table doesn't have any
200870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	  present SPTEs.
201870d4d4eSSean Christopherson
202870d4d4eSSean Christopherson	  If in doubt, say "N".
203870d4d4eSSean Christopherson
204e9d0c0c4SDavid Stevensconfig KVM_EXTERNAL_WRITE_TRACKING
205e9d0c0c4SDavid Stevens	bool
206e9d0c0c4SDavid Stevens
207f10a570bSKyle Meyerconfig KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS
208f10a570bSKyle Meyer	int "Maximum number of vCPUs per KVM guest"
209f10a570bSKyle Meyer	depends on KVM
210f10a570bSKyle Meyer	range 1024 4096
211f10a570bSKyle Meyer	default 4096 if MAXSMP
212f10a570bSKyle Meyer	default 1024
213f10a570bSKyle Meyer	help
214f10a570bSKyle Meyer	  Set the maximum number of vCPUs per KVM guest. Larger values will increase
215f10a570bSKyle Meyer	  the memory footprint of each KVM guest, regardless of how many vCPUs are
216f10a570bSKyle Meyer	  created for a given VM.
217f10a570bSKyle Meyer
218edf88417SAvi Kivityendif # VIRTUALIZATION
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