2 mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86"
6 bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
7 default ARCH = "x86_64"
9 Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64
10 Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386
21 select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32
24 select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
27 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS if (!M386 && !M486)
29 select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
31 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
32 select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
34 select HAVE_KRETPROBES
36 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
37 select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
38 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
39 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
40 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
41 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
42 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
43 select HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER if DYNAMIC_FTRACE
44 select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
47 select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
48 select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32
49 select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
50 select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
51 select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
52 select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
53 select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
54 select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
55 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
56 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
57 select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
58 select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
60 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
62 select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
63 select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
64 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
65 select HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP
67 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
68 def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
72 default "elf32-i386" if X86_32
73 default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64
77 default "arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" if X86_32
78 default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" if X86_64
80 config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
83 config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
86 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
89 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
91 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
93 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
96 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
99 config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
111 config NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
112 def_bool (X86_64 || DMAR || DMA_API_DEBUG)
114 config NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
117 config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
126 select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64
128 config GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
131 config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
137 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
140 config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
143 config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
146 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT
149 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
152 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
156 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX
159 config ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE
162 config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
165 config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
168 config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
171 config NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK
174 config HAVE_CPUMASK_OF_CPU_MAP
177 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
180 config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
187 config ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
194 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING
197 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
200 config HAVE_EARLY_RES
203 config HAVE_INTEL_TXT
205 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && DMAR && ACPI
207 # Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/:
208 config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
211 config GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ
214 config GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
217 config GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ
219 depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP
221 config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
227 depends on X86_32 && SMP
231 depends on X86_64 && SMP
237 config X86_TRAMPOLINE
239 depends on SMP || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP)
241 config X86_32_LAZY_GS
243 depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR
245 config ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS
247 default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32
248 default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64
253 config ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
255 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
257 source "init/Kconfig"
258 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
260 menu "Processor type and features"
262 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
265 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
267 This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
268 a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
269 you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
271 If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor
272 machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
273 you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
274 singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
275 will run faster if you say N here.
277 Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
278 "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
279 architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
280 architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
282 People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
283 Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
284 Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
286 See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
287 <file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
288 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
290 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
293 bool "Support x2apic"
294 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && INTR_REMAP
296 This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
298 This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
299 and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio.
301 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
304 bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
305 depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ
307 This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro
308 kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still
309 want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines.
311 ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread
312 out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. )
314 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
318 depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA
321 bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
323 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
325 For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems
326 (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it
329 bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
330 depends on X86_32 && SMP
332 This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs
335 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
336 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
339 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
340 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
343 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
344 for the following (non-PC) 32 bit x86 platforms:
348 SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)
349 Summit/EXA (IBM x440)
350 Unisys ES7000 IA32 series
351 Moorestown MID devices
353 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
354 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
358 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
359 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
362 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
363 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
366 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
367 for the following (non-PC) 64 bit x86 platforms:
371 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
372 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
374 # This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms
375 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
380 depends on X86_64 && PCI
381 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
383 Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
384 supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option
385 if you have one of these machines.
388 bool "SGI Ultraviolet"
390 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
392 depends on X86_X2APIC
394 This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems.
395 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
397 # Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms
398 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
403 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
405 Select this for an AMD Elan processor.
407 Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors!
409 If unsure, choose "PC-compatible" instead.
412 bool "Moorestown MID platform"
416 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
417 depends on X86_IO_APIC
420 Moorestown is Intel's Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) based Moblin
421 Internet Device(MID) platform. Moorestown consists of two chips:
422 Lincroft (CPU core, graphics, and memory controller) and Langwell IOH.
423 Unlike standard x86 PCs, Moorestown does not have many legacy devices
424 nor standard legacy replacement devices/features. e.g. Moorestown does
425 not contain i8259, i8254, HPET, legacy BIOS, most of the io ports.
428 bool "RDC R-321x SoC"
430 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
432 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
434 This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known
436 If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here.
438 config X86_32_NON_STANDARD
439 bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures"
440 depends on X86_32 && SMP
441 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
443 This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default
444 subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel.
445 if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will
448 # Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms
451 bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)"
452 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
457 This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)
458 NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are
459 bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead
460 of Flat Logical. You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your
461 firmware with - send email to <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>.
463 config X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
465 # MCE code calls memory_failure():
467 # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags:
468 depends on !X86_NUMAQ
469 # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH:
470 depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM
471 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
474 bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)"
475 depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT
476 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
478 The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation
479 based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached.
481 Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540.
483 A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will run on general
484 PCs as well. See <file:Documentation/sgi-visws.txt> for details.
487 bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)"
488 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
490 This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset.
491 In particular, it is needed for the x440.
494 bool "Unisys ES7000 IA32 series"
495 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP
497 Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
498 supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system.
500 config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
502 prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output"
505 Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
506 is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
507 caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
508 at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead.
510 If in doubt, say "Y".
512 menuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST
513 bool "Paravirtualized guest support"
515 Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under
516 various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
518 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
522 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
525 bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
529 VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
530 (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
531 at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
532 provided by the hypervisor.
534 As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
535 of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
536 feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
537 planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
538 live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
539 which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
540 seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
544 bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
546 select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
548 Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock
549 when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT
550 (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host
551 provides the guest with timing infrastructure such as time of day, and
555 bool "KVM Guest support"
558 This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
561 source "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig"
564 bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
566 This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
567 under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
568 over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor
569 the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger.
571 config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
572 bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
573 depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL
575 Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
576 spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
577 (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning).
579 Unfortunately the downside is an up to 5% performance hit on
580 native kernels, with various workloads.
582 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
584 config PARAVIRT_CLOCK
589 config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
590 bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
591 depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
593 Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if
594 a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
598 bool "Disable Bootmem code"
600 Use early_res directly instead of bootmem before slab is ready.
601 - allocator (buddy) [generic]
602 - early allocator (bootmem) [generic]
603 - very early allocator (reserve_early*()) [x86]
604 - very very early allocator (early brk model) [x86]
605 So reduce one layer between early allocator to final allocator
611 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
613 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
614 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
616 memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns.
617 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
619 config X86_SUMMIT_NUMA
621 depends on X86_32 && NUMA && X86_32_NON_STANDARD
623 config X86_CYCLONE_TIMER
625 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
627 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu"
631 prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
633 Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
634 time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
636 HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
637 The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
638 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
639 as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at
640 <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>.
642 You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be
643 activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
644 Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
646 Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
648 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
650 depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y)
654 prompt "Langwell APB Timer Support" if X86_MRST
656 APB timer is the replacement for 8254, HPET on X86 MID platforms.
657 The APBT provides a stable time base on SMP
658 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
659 as it is off-chip. APB timers are always running regardless of CPU
660 C states, they are used as per CPU clockevent device when possible.
662 # Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong.
663 # The code disables itself when not needed.
666 bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED
668 Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y
669 here unless you have verified that your setup is not
670 affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP
674 bool "GART IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED
677 depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB
679 Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only
680 on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB,
681 sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
682 Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART
683 based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used
684 on Intel systems and as fallback.
685 The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited
686 device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified
690 bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support"
692 depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
694 Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460
695 systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory
696 properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC
697 (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level
698 isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This
699 prevents them from going anywhere except their intended
700 destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and
701 mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API
702 properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be
703 turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter.
704 Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
707 config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
709 prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?"
710 depends on CALGARY_IOMMU
712 Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary
713 will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be
714 used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use
715 Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line.
719 bool "AMD IOMMU support"
722 depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
724 With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in
725 your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides
726 remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you
727 can isolate the the DMA memory of different devices and protect the
728 system from misbehaving device drivers or hardware.
730 You can find out if your system has an AMD IOMMU if you look into
731 your BIOS for an option to enable it or if you have an IVRS ACPI
734 config AMD_IOMMU_STATS
735 bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs"
739 This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various
740 statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that
741 information to userspace via debugfs.
744 # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround
748 Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems
749 which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation
750 of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only
751 access 32-bits of memory can be used on systems with more than
752 3 GB of memory. If unsure, say Y.
755 def_bool (CALGARY_IOMMU || GART_IOMMU || SWIOTLB || AMD_IOMMU)
758 def_bool (AMD_IOMMU || DMAR)
761 bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes"
762 depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL
763 select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
765 Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
769 int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
770 range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP
771 range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP
773 default "4096" if MAXSMP
774 default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000)
777 This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
778 kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the
779 minimum value which makes sense is 2.
781 This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds
782 approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image.
785 bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support"
788 SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making
789 when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a
790 cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say
795 prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
798 Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
799 making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
800 increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
802 config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
803 bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
806 Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
807 accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
808 transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
809 small performance impact.
811 If in doubt, say N here.
813 source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
816 bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors"
817 depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD
819 A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
820 integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
821 system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to
822 enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't
823 have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at
824 all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer,
825 performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard
829 bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
830 depends on X86_UP_APIC
832 An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
833 SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most
834 SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one.
836 If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here
837 to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have
838 an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all.
840 config X86_LOCAL_APIC
842 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC
846 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC
848 config X86_VISWS_APIC
850 depends on X86_32 && X86_VISWS
852 config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
853 bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
854 depends on X86_IO_APIC
856 This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of
857 spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded
858 interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of
859 superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled.
861 Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ
862 entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT
863 kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this
864 boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps
865 the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot
866 IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the
867 kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this
868 way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise
869 the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring
870 down (vital) interrupt lines.
872 Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be
873 increased on these systems.
876 bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
878 Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
879 kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
880 The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
881 ranging from warning messages to halting the machine.
885 prompt "Intel MCE features"
886 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
888 Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
893 prompt "AMD MCE features"
894 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
896 Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
897 the DRAM Error Threshold.
899 config X86_ANCIENT_MCE
900 bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks"
901 depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
903 Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip
904 systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitely on the command
907 config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD
908 depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL
911 config X86_MCE_INJECT
913 tristate "Machine check injector support"
915 Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes.
916 If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel
917 QA it is safe to say n.
919 config X86_THERMAL_VECTOR
921 depends on X86_MCE_INTEL
924 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
928 This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
929 code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
930 XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
931 option saves about 6k.
934 tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
937 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of
938 the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does
939 not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode
940 is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables.
942 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the
943 Toshiba Linux utilities web site at:
944 <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>.
946 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable.
950 tristate "Dell laptop support"
952 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode
953 of the CPU on the Dell Inspiron 8000. The System Management Mode
954 is used to read cpu temperature and cooling fan status and to
955 control the fans on the I8K portables.
957 This driver has been tested only on the Inspiron 8000 but it may
958 also work with other Dell laptops. You can force loading on other
959 models by passing the parameter `force=1' to the module. Use at
962 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the
963 I8K Linux utilities web site at:
964 <http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/>
966 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000.
969 config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
970 bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
973 This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done
974 in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on
975 some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which
976 this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung
979 Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using
980 CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC.
982 Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to
983 enable this option even if you don't need it.
987 tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support"
990 If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
991 certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the
992 IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
993 Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and
994 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra.
995 You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself
996 which is not shipped with the Linux kernel.
998 This option selects the general module only, you need to select
999 at least one vendor specific module as well.
1001 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
1002 module will be called microcode.
1004 config MICROCODE_INTEL
1005 bool "Intel microcode patch loading support"
1006 depends on MICROCODE
1010 This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
1013 For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
1014 Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
1015 <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
1017 config MICROCODE_AMD
1018 bool "AMD microcode patch loading support"
1019 depends on MICROCODE
1022 If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
1023 processors will be enabled.
1025 config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
1027 depends on MICROCODE
1030 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
1032 This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
1033 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with
1034 major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
1035 MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor
1039 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
1041 This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
1042 be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device
1043 with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
1047 prompt "High Memory Support"
1048 default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ
1054 depends on !X86_NUMAQ
1056 Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
1057 However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
1058 Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of
1059 physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the
1060 kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called
1063 If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
1064 more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
1065 choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
1066 split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
1067 space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
1068 by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
1071 If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then
1074 If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This
1075 selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on.
1076 PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully
1077 supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel
1078 processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here,
1079 then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE!
1081 The actual amount of total physical memory will either be
1082 auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option
1083 such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
1084 your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the
1085 kernel at boot time.)
1087 If unsure, say "off".
1091 depends on !X86_NUMAQ
1093 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
1094 gigabytes of physical RAM.
1098 depends on !M386 && !M486
1101 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
1102 gigabytes of physical RAM.
1107 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1108 prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED
1112 Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
1114 If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
1115 physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available
1116 as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly
1117 than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first.
1118 Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range
1119 available to user programs, making the address space there
1120 tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split
1121 will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only
1124 If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this
1128 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
1129 config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1131 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
1133 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
1134 config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1136 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
1138 bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
1143 default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1144 default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
1145 default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1146 default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G
1152 depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G)
1155 bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
1156 depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G
1158 PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
1159 larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
1160 has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
1161 consumes more pagetable space per process.
1163 config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
1164 def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
1166 config DIRECT_GBPAGES
1167 bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED
1171 Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that
1172 support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by
1173 reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y".
1175 # Common NUMA Features
1177 bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
1179 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
1180 default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP)
1182 Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support.
1184 The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
1185 local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
1186 NUMA awareness to the kernel.
1188 For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7
1189 (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.
1191 For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms
1192 that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you
1193 boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform.
1195 Otherwise, you should say N.
1197 comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
1198 depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)
1202 prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
1203 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
1205 Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
1206 you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old
1207 method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin
1208 Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1209 instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
1211 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1213 prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
1214 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
1217 Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
1219 # Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span
1220 # other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and
1221 # between a node's start and end pfns, it may not
1222 # reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone()
1224 config NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
1226 depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1229 bool "NUMA emulation"
1230 depends on X86_64 && NUMA
1232 Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split
1233 into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the
1234 number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging.
1237 int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP
1239 default "10" if MAXSMP
1240 default "6" if X86_64
1241 default "4" if X86_NUMAQ
1243 depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
1245 Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target
1246 system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables.
1248 config HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
1250 depends on X86_32 && NUMA
1252 config ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
1254 depends on X86_32 && DISCONTIGMEM
1256 config NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE
1258 depends on X86_32 && (DISCONTIGMEM || SPARSEMEM)
1260 config HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP
1262 depends on X86_32 && NUMA
1264 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
1266 depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA
1268 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
1270 depends on NUMA && X86_32
1272 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
1274 depends on NUMA && X86_32
1276 config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT
1278 depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE
1280 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
1284 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
1286 depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_32) || X86_32_NON_STANDARD
1287 select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
1288 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
1290 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
1292 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
1294 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
1296 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1298 config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
1301 default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64
1306 bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
1309 The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
1310 For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
1311 low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
1312 entries in high memory.
1314 config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1315 bool "Check for low memory corruption"
1317 Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which
1318 is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the
1319 configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by
1320 setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command
1321 line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60
1322 seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and
1323 memory_corruption_check_period parameters in
1324 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this.
1326 When enabled with the default parameters, this option has
1327 almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount
1328 of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption
1329 and prevents it from affecting the running system.
1331 It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable
1332 BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory,
1333 you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that
1336 config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK
1337 bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
1338 depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1341 Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
1344 config X86_RESERVE_LOW
1345 int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS"
1349 Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS.
1351 The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel
1352 must not use, so that page must always be reserved.
1354 By default we reserve the first 64K of physical RAM, as a
1355 number of BIOSes are known to corrupt that memory range
1356 during events such as suspend/resume or monitor cable
1357 insertion, so it must not be used by the kernel.
1359 You can set this to 4 if you are absolutely sure that you
1360 trust the BIOS to get all its memory reservations and usages
1361 right. If you know your BIOS have problems beyond the
1362 default 64K area, you can set this to 640 to avoid using the
1363 entire low memory range.
1365 If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does
1366 not work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware
1367 hotplug events) then you might want to enable
1368 X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check
1369 typical corruption patterns.
1371 Leave this to the default value of 64 if you are unsure.
1373 config MATH_EMULATION
1375 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32
1377 Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point
1378 operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have
1379 a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added
1380 a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can
1381 give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a
1382 coprocessor or this emulation.
1384 If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you
1385 say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will
1386 be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel
1387 command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor
1388 is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot
1389 loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at
1390 boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you
1391 intend to use this kernel on different machines.
1393 More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor
1394 emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>.
1396 If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger
1397 kernel, it won't hurt.
1401 prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EMBEDDED
1403 On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
1404 the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
1405 processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
1406 a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining
1407 allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer
1408 before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance
1409 of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a
1410 /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's
1411 MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this.
1413 This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar
1414 control registers on other processors can be easily supported
1417 The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range
1418 Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For
1419 these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs.
1420 The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two
1421 MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing
1422 write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code
1423 and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them.
1425 Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only
1426 set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This
1427 can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here.
1429 You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll
1430 just add about 9 KB to your kernel.
1432 See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information.
1434 config MTRR_SANITIZER
1436 prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
1439 Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can
1440 add writeback entries.
1442 Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line.
1443 The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with
1448 config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
1449 int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)"
1452 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1454 Enable mtrr cleanup default value
1456 config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
1457 int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)"
1460 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1462 mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via
1463 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line.
1467 prompt "x86 PAT support" if EMBEDDED
1470 Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control.
1472 PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more
1473 flexible than MTRRs.
1475 Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang,
1476 spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver.
1480 config ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED
1485 bool "EFI runtime service support"
1488 This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
1489 available (such as the EFI variable services).
1491 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
1492 In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
1493 at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
1494 of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
1495 resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
1500 prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
1502 This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
1503 that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
1504 execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
1505 the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
1506 syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
1507 their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
1508 enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled
1509 and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
1510 defined by each seccomp mode.
1512 If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
1514 config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
1515 bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1517 This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
1518 feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
1519 the stack just before the return address, and validates
1520 the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
1521 overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
1522 overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
1523 neutralized via a kernel panic.
1525 This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
1526 gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically
1527 detected and for those versions, this configuration option is
1528 ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup)
1530 source kernel/Kconfig.hz
1533 bool "kexec system call"
1535 kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
1536 current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
1537 but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
1538 you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
1540 The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call.
1542 It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine
1543 is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not
1544 initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging
1545 support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
1546 strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
1549 bool "kernel crash dumps"
1550 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
1552 Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
1553 This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
1554 which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
1555 a specially reserved region and then later executed after
1556 a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
1557 to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
1558 PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image
1559 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
1560 For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
1563 bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1564 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1565 depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
1567 Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
1568 code in physical address mode via KEXEC
1570 config PHYSICAL_START
1571 hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
1574 This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
1576 If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
1577 bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and
1578 run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where
1579 it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical
1582 In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
1583 as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
1584 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
1585 address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
1586 to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
1587 vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
1588 to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
1589 (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
1591 So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump,
1592 leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set
1593 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux
1594 for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of
1595 the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on
1596 the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM"
1597 command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed
1598 kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
1599 for more details about crash dumps.
1601 Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
1602 one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
1603 as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
1604 gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
1605 is present because there are users out there who continue to use
1606 vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
1609 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
1612 bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
1615 This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
1616 so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
1617 The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
1618 but are discarded at runtime.
1620 One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
1621 must live at a different physical address than the primary
1624 Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
1625 it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address
1626 (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored.
1628 # Relocation on x86-32 needs some additional build support
1629 config X86_NEED_RELOCS
1631 depends on X86_32 && RELOCATABLE
1633 config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
1634 hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" if X86_32
1636 range 0x2000 0x1000000
1638 This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
1639 where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
1640 address which meets above alignment restriction.
1642 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
1643 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest
1644 address aligned to above value and run from there.
1646 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
1647 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time
1648 load address and decompress itself to the address it has been
1649 compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is
1650 compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the
1651 end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting
1652 above alignment restrictions.
1654 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
1657 bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
1658 depends on SMP && HOTPLUG
1660 Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be
1661 controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.
1662 ( Note: power management support will enable this option
1663 automatically on SMP systems. )
1664 Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
1668 prompt "Compat VDSO support"
1669 depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
1671 Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too.
1673 Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc
1674 version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped
1675 VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO.
1680 bool "Built-in kernel command line"
1682 Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
1683 build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
1684 necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
1685 kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is,
1686 to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.)
1688 To compile command line arguments into the kernel,
1689 set this option to 'Y', then fill in the
1690 the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
1692 Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded)
1693 should leave this option set to 'N'.
1696 string "Built-in kernel command string"
1697 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
1700 Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
1701 image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a
1702 command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
1703 form the full kernel command line, when the system boots.
1705 However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to
1706 change this behavior.
1708 In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided
1709 by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root
1712 config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
1713 bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
1714 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
1716 Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
1717 command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
1719 This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should
1720 be set to 'N' under normal conditions.
1724 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1726 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
1728 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
1730 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1732 config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
1736 config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
1740 menu "Power management and ACPI options"
1742 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
1744 depends on X86_64 && HIBERNATION
1746 source "kernel/power/Kconfig"
1748 source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
1750 source "drivers/sfi/Kconfig"
1754 depends on APM || APM_MODULE
1757 tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
1758 depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP
1760 APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
1761 techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
1762 APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
1763 reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide
1764 battery status information, and user-space programs will receive
1765 notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change).
1767 If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM
1768 BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time.
1770 Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for
1771 machines with more than one CPU.
1773 In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location
1774 and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/pm.txt> and the
1775 Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
1776 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1778 This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8)
1779 manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off
1780 VESA-compliant "green" monitors.
1782 This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER
1783 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green"
1784 desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver
1785 may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase.
1787 Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't
1788 much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get
1789 random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to
1790 anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling
1793 Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random,
1796 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is
1798 2) pass the "no-hlt" option to the kernel
1799 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass
1800 the "no387" option to the kernel
1801 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel
1802 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling
1803 all but the first 4 MB of RAM)
1804 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked.
1805 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>
1806 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings
1807 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM
1808 10) install a better fan for the CPU
1809 11) exchange RAM chips
1810 12) exchange the motherboard.
1812 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
1813 module will be called apm.
1817 config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
1818 bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
1820 This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
1821 compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
1822 series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug.
1824 config APM_DO_ENABLE
1825 bool "Enable PM at boot time"
1827 Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
1828 specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
1829 power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend
1830 State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls."
1831 This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this
1832 feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This
1833 should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features
1834 will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn
1835 this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM
1836 support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn
1837 this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba
1838 T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without
1842 bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
1844 Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
1845 On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
1846 a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls
1847 are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g.,
1848 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or
1849 whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU,
1850 this option does nothing.)
1852 config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
1853 bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
1855 Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
1856 turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
1857 virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by
1858 the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight
1859 when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to
1860 do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this
1861 option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your
1862 backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console,
1863 especially if you are using gpm.
1865 config APM_ALLOW_INTS
1866 bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
1868 Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
1869 the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
1870 BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it
1871 needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in
1872 many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you
1873 suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N.
1877 source "arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig"
1879 source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
1881 source "drivers/idle/Kconfig"
1886 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)"
1891 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC)
1893 Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a
1894 bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside
1895 your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or
1896 VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N.
1899 prompt "PCI access mode"
1900 depends on X86_32 && PCI
1903 On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and
1904 determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards
1905 have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded
1906 PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to
1907 detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS.
1909 With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the
1910 PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used,
1911 if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you
1912 choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used.
1913 If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the
1914 direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't
1915 work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any".
1920 config PCI_GOMMCONFIG
1937 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY)
1939 # x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct.
1942 depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC))
1946 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (ACPI || SFI) && (PCI_GOMMCONFIG || PCI_GOANY)
1950 depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY)
1957 bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access"
1958 depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
1960 config PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK
1961 bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows"
1964 Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows
1965 PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do
1969 bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1970 depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
1972 DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address
1973 translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices.
1974 These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables
1975 and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA
1978 config DMAR_DEFAULT_ON
1980 prompt "Enable DMA Remapping Devices by default"
1983 Selecting this option will enable a DMAR device at boot time if
1984 one is found. If this option is not selected, DMAR support can
1985 be enabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the kernel. It is
1986 recommended you say N here while the DMAR code remains
1989 config DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA
1990 bool "Workaround broken graphics drivers (going away soon)"
1991 depends on DMAR && BROKEN
1993 Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address
1994 for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config
1995 option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for
1996 all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue
1997 to use physical addresses for DMA, at least until this
1998 option is removed in the 2.6.32 kernel.
2000 config DMAR_FLOPPY_WA
2004 Floppy disk drivers are known to bypass DMA API calls
2005 thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This
2006 workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first
2007 16MiB to make floppy (an ISA device) work.
2010 bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2011 depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
2013 Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices.
2014 To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or
2015 to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y.
2017 source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
2019 source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
2021 # x86_64 have no ISA slots, but do have ISA-style DMA.
2030 Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the
2031 name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
2032 inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
2033 (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI;
2034 newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
2040 The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
2041 developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus.
2043 The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChannel
2044 bus while maintaining backward compatibility with cards made for
2045 the older ISA bus. The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and
2046 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
2048 Say Y here if you are building a kernel for an EISA-based machine.
2052 source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig"
2057 MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and
2058 laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See
2059 <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given
2060 there) before attempting to build an MCA bus kernel.
2062 source "drivers/mca/Kconfig"
2065 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
2067 This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
2068 (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the
2069 PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
2070 for other scx200_* drivers.
2072 If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200.
2074 config SCx200HR_TIMER
2075 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
2079 This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
2080 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for
2081 NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
2082 processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The
2083 other workaround is idle=poll boot option.
2086 bool "One Laptop Per Child support"
2089 Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
2092 config OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE
2093 bool "Support for OLPC's Open Firmware"
2094 depends on !X86_64 && !X86_PAE
2097 This option adds support for the implementation of Open Firmware
2098 that is used on the OLPC XO-1 Children's Machine.
2099 If unsure, say N here.
2105 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI
2107 source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
2109 source "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig"
2114 menu "Executable file formats / Emulations"
2116 source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
2118 config IA32_EMULATION
2119 bool "IA32 Emulation"
2121 select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
2123 Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should
2124 likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any
2125 32-bit programs left.
2128 tristate "IA32 a.out support"
2129 depends on IA32_EMULATION
2131 Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
2135 depends on IA32_EMULATION
2137 config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
2141 config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
2143 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
2148 config HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP
2152 config HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP
2154 select STOP_MACHINE if SMP
2156 source "net/Kconfig"
2158 source "drivers/Kconfig"
2160 source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
2164 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.debug"
2166 source "security/Kconfig"
2168 source "crypto/Kconfig"
2170 source "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig"
2172 source "lib/Kconfig"