1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 # Select 32 or 64 bit 3 config 64BIT 4 bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(ARCH)" = "x86" 5 default "$(ARCH)" != "i386" 6 help 7 Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 8 Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 9 10 config X86_32 11 def_bool y 12 depends on !64BIT 13 # Options that are inherently 32-bit kernel only: 14 select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION 15 select CLKSRC_I8253 16 select CLONE_BACKWARDS 17 select GENERIC_VDSO_32 18 select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 19 select KMAP_LOCAL 20 select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL 21 select OLD_SIGACTION 22 select ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 23 24 config X86_64 25 def_bool y 26 depends on 64BIT 27 # Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only: 28 select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE 29 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128 30 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK 31 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 32 select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY 33 select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA 34 select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE 35 select SWIOTLB 36 select ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT 37 select ZONE_DMA32 38 select EXECMEM if DYNAMIC_FTRACE 39 40 config FORCE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 41 def_bool y 42 depends on X86_32 43 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 44 select DYNAMIC_FTRACE 45 help 46 We keep the static function tracing (!DYNAMIC_FTRACE) around 47 in order to test the non static function tracing in the 48 generic code, as other architectures still use it. But we 49 only need to keep it around for x86_64. No need to keep it 50 for x86_32. For x86_32, force DYNAMIC_FTRACE. 51 # 52 # Arch settings 53 # 54 # ( Note that options that are marked 'if X86_64' could in principle be 55 # ported to 32-bit as well. ) 56 # 57 config X86 58 def_bool y 59 # 60 # Note: keep this list sorted alphabetically 61 # 62 select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI 63 select ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT if ACPI 64 select ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU if ACPI_PROCESSOR && HOTPLUG_CPU 65 select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if X86_32 66 select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT 67 select ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS 68 select ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 69 select ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION if X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION 70 select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG if X86_64 71 select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 72 select ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK if (PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2) && (X86_64 || X86_PAE) 73 select ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if X86_64 && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 74 select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE if ACPI 75 select ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 76 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_INVALIDATE_MEMREGION 77 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT 78 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID if IOMMU_SVA 79 select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER 80 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 81 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE if !X86_PAE 82 select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 83 select ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS if GART_IOMMU || XEN 84 select ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG if KGDB 85 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE 86 select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER 87 select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 88 select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL 89 select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64 90 select ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT 91 select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT 92 select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE 93 select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS 94 select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE 95 select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64 96 select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP if X86_64 97 select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 98 select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG 99 select ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG if PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2 100 select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64 101 select ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC if X86_64 102 select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY 103 select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP 104 select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX 105 select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX 106 select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE 107 select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER 108 select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN 109 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX 110 select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET if EXPERT 111 select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 112 select ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES 113 select ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE 114 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI 115 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT 116 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO 117 select ARCH_STACKWALK 118 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI 119 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW 120 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 121 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK if X86_64 122 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64 123 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if NR_CPUS <= 4096 124 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG if X86_64 125 select ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS if X86_64 && CFI_CLANG 126 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG 127 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN 128 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT 129 select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP 130 select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if X86_CMPXCHG64 131 select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 132 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS 133 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS 134 select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS 135 select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 136 select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT if X86_64 137 select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT 138 select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 139 select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 140 select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE 141 select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN 142 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP if X86_64 143 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if X86_64 144 select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64 145 select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH 146 select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT 147 select CLKEVT_I8253 148 select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE 149 select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 150 # Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0 151 # in strings and cause false KMSAN reports. 152 select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !KMSAN 153 select DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 154 select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB 155 select EDAC_SUPPORT 156 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) 157 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST_IDLE if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST 158 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST 159 select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE 160 select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE 161 select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES 162 select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES 163 select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP 164 select GENERIC_ENTRY 165 select GENERIC_IOMAP 166 select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP 167 select GENERIC_IRQ_MATRIX_ALLOCATOR if X86_LOCAL_APIC 168 select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION if SMP 169 select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE 170 select GENERIC_IRQ_RESERVATION_MODE 171 select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW 172 select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP 173 select GENERIC_PTDUMP 174 select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD 175 select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL 176 select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 177 select GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS 178 select GENERIC_VDSO_OVERFLOW_PROTECT 179 select GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH if X86_PAE 180 select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND 181 select HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP if X86_64 182 select HAS_IOPORT 183 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI 184 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI 185 select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE 186 select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL 187 select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE 188 select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC if X86_64 189 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL 190 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE 191 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64 192 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if X86_64 193 select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE 194 select HAVE_ARCH_KMSAN if X86_64 195 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 196 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU 197 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT 198 select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT 199 select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS 200 select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 201 select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST 202 select HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK 203 select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 204 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 205 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64 206 select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD 207 select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD 208 select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64 209 select HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET 210 select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES 211 select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS 212 select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 213 select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 214 select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER if X86_64 215 select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK if HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER 216 select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 217 select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL 218 select HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 219 select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 220 select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 221 select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS 222 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 223 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 224 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS if X86_64 225 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 226 select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT if X86_64 227 select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI if X86_64 228 select HAVE_EBPF_JIT 229 select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS 230 select HAVE_EISA 231 select HAVE_EXIT_THREAD 232 select HAVE_GUP_FAST 233 select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 || DYNAMIC_FTRACE 234 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 235 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 236 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if X86_32 || (X86_64 && DYNAMIC_FTRACE) 237 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 238 select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS 239 select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 240 select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT 241 select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 242 select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 243 select HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL 244 select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 245 select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 246 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 247 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 248 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 249 select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ 250 select HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD 251 select HAVE_KPROBES 252 select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 253 select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 254 select HAVE_KRETPROBES 255 select HAVE_RETHOOK 256 select HAVE_LIVEPATCH if X86_64 257 select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS 258 select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC 259 select HAVE_MOVE_PMD 260 select HAVE_MOVE_PUD 261 select HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL 262 select HAVE_NMI 263 select HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL 264 select HAVE_OBJTOOL if X86_64 265 select HAVE_OPTPROBES 266 select HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB 267 select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM 268 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 269 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 270 select HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 271 select HAVE_PCI 272 select HAVE_PERF_REGS 273 select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP 274 select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if PARAVIRT 275 select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS 276 select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK 277 select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 278 select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if UNWINDER_ORC || STACK_VALIDATION 279 select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 280 select HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA 281 select HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK 282 select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR if CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR 283 select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL 284 select HAVE_STATIC_CALL 285 select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE if HAVE_OBJTOOL 286 select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL 287 select HAVE_RSEQ 288 select HAVE_RUST if X86_64 289 select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 290 select HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL 291 select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 292 select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER 293 select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO 294 select VDSO_GETRANDOM if X86_64 295 select HOTPLUG_PARALLEL if SMP && X86_64 296 select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP 297 select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP if SMP && X86_32 298 select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING 299 select LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA 300 select NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK 301 select NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK 302 select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH 303 select NUMA_MEMBLKS if NUMA 304 select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI 305 select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG if PCI 306 select PERF_EVENTS 307 select RTC_LIB 308 select RTC_MC146818_LIB 309 select SPARSE_IRQ 310 select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE 311 select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK 312 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 313 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 314 select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 315 select HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN if X86_64 316 select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS 317 select HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP if X86_SGX 318 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B if X86_64 || X86_ALIGNMENT_16 319 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B 320 imply IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI 321 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 322 323 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER 324 def_bool y 325 depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES 326 327 config OUTPUT_FORMAT 328 string 329 default "elf32-i386" if X86_32 330 default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64 331 332 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 333 def_bool y 334 335 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 336 def_bool y 337 338 config MMU 339 def_bool y 340 341 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN 342 default 28 if 64BIT 343 default 8 344 345 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX 346 default 32 if 64BIT 347 default 16 348 349 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN 350 default 8 351 352 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX 353 default 16 354 355 config SBUS 356 bool 357 358 config GENERIC_ISA_DMA 359 def_bool y 360 depends on ISA_DMA_API 361 362 config GENERIC_CSUM 363 bool 364 default y if KMSAN || KASAN 365 366 config GENERIC_BUG 367 def_bool y 368 depends on BUG 369 select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64 370 371 config GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS 372 bool 373 374 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 375 def_bool y 376 depends on ISA_DMA_API 377 378 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 379 def_bool y 380 381 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX 382 def_bool y 383 384 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE 385 def_bool y 386 387 config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE 388 def_bool y 389 390 config AUDIT_ARCH 391 def_bool y if X86_64 392 393 config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET 394 hex 395 depends on KASAN 396 default 0xdffffc0000000000 397 398 config HAVE_INTEL_TXT 399 def_bool y 400 depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI 401 402 config X86_64_SMP 403 def_bool y 404 depends on X86_64 && SMP 405 406 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 407 def_bool y 408 409 config FIX_EARLYCON_MEM 410 def_bool y 411 412 config DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK 413 bool 414 415 config PGTABLE_LEVELS 416 int 417 default 5 if X86_5LEVEL 418 default 4 if X86_64 419 default 3 if X86_PAE 420 default 2 421 422 config CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR 423 bool 424 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS)) if 64BIT 425 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS)) 426 help 427 We have to make sure stack protector is unconditionally disabled if 428 the compiler produces broken code or if it does not let us control 429 the segment on 32-bit kernels. 430 431 menu "Processor type and features" 432 433 config SMP 434 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" 435 help 436 This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have 437 a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more 438 than one CPU, say Y. 439 440 If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor 441 machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If 442 you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all, 443 uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel 444 will run faster if you say N here. 445 446 Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or 447 "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486 448 architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" 449 architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards. 450 451 People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say 452 Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power 453 Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here. 454 455 See also <file:Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst>, 456 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst> and the SMP-HOWTO available at 457 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 458 459 If you don't know what to do here, say N. 460 461 config X86_X2APIC 462 bool "Support x2apic" 463 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST) 464 help 465 This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature. 466 467 This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems), 468 and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio. 469 470 Some Intel systems circa 2022 and later are locked into x2APIC mode 471 and can not fall back to the legacy APIC modes if SGX or TDX are 472 enabled in the BIOS. They will boot with very reduced functionality 473 without enabling this option. 474 475 If you don't know what to do here, say N. 476 477 config X86_POSTED_MSI 478 bool "Enable MSI and MSI-x delivery by posted interrupts" 479 depends on X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP 480 help 481 This enables MSIs that are under interrupt remapping to be delivered as 482 posted interrupts to the host kernel. Interrupt throughput can 483 potentially be improved by coalescing CPU notifications during high 484 frequency bursts. 485 486 If you don't know what to do here, say N. 487 488 config X86_MPPARSE 489 bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI 490 default y 491 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 492 help 493 For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems 494 (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it 495 496 config X86_CPU_RESCTRL 497 bool "x86 CPU resource control support" 498 depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) 499 select KERNFS 500 select PROC_CPU_RESCTRL if PROC_FS 501 help 502 Enable x86 CPU resource control support. 503 504 Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources 505 usage by the CPU. 506 507 Intel calls this Intel Resource Director Technology 508 (Intel(R) RDT). More information about RDT can be found in the 509 Intel x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual. 510 511 AMD calls this AMD Platform Quality of Service (AMD QoS). 512 More information about AMD QoS can be found in the AMD64 Technology 513 Platform Quality of Service Extensions manual. 514 515 Say N if unsure. 516 517 config X86_FRED 518 bool "Flexible Return and Event Delivery" 519 depends on X86_64 520 help 521 When enabled, try to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery 522 instead of the legacy SYSCALL/SYSENTER/IDT architecture for 523 ring transitions and exception/interrupt handling if the 524 system supports it. 525 526 config X86_BIGSMP 527 bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" 528 depends on SMP && X86_32 529 help 530 This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs. 531 532 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 533 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms" 534 default y 535 help 536 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support 537 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of 538 systems out there.) 539 540 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support 541 for the following non-PC x86 platforms, depending on the value of 542 CONFIG_64BIT. 543 544 32-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=n): 545 Goldfish (Android emulator) 546 AMD Elan 547 RDC R-321x SoC 548 SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) 549 STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville) 550 Moorestown MID devices 551 552 64-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=y): 553 Numascale NumaChip 554 ScaleMP vSMP 555 SGI Ultraviolet 556 557 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a 558 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N. 559 560 # This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms 561 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 562 config X86_NUMACHIP 563 bool "Numascale NumaChip" 564 depends on X86_64 565 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 566 depends on NUMA 567 depends on SMP 568 depends on X86_X2APIC 569 depends on PCI_MMCONFIG 570 help 571 Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to 572 enable more than ~168 cores. 573 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 574 575 config X86_VSMP 576 bool "ScaleMP vSMP" 577 select HYPERVISOR_GUEST 578 select PARAVIRT 579 depends on X86_64 && PCI 580 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 581 depends on SMP 582 help 583 Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is 584 supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option 585 if you have one of these machines. 586 587 config X86_UV 588 bool "SGI Ultraviolet" 589 depends on X86_64 590 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 591 depends on NUMA 592 depends on EFI 593 depends on KEXEC_CORE 594 depends on X86_X2APIC 595 depends on PCI 596 help 597 This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. 598 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. 599 600 # Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms 601 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions 602 603 config X86_GOLDFISH 604 bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)" 605 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 606 help 607 Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily 608 for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android 609 Goldfish emulator say N here. 610 611 config X86_INTEL_CE 612 bool "CE4100 TV platform" 613 depends on PCI 614 depends on PCI_GODIRECT 615 depends on X86_IO_APIC 616 depends on X86_32 617 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 618 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 619 select OF 620 select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE 621 help 622 Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC. 623 This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop 624 boxes and media devices. 625 626 config X86_INTEL_MID 627 bool "Intel MID platform support" 628 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 629 depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 630 depends on PCI 631 depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY && X86_32) 632 depends on X86_IO_APIC 633 select I2C 634 select DW_APB_TIMER 635 select INTEL_SCU_PCI 636 help 637 Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile 638 Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy 639 interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here. 640 641 Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which 642 consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives. 643 644 config X86_INTEL_QUARK 645 bool "Intel Quark platform support" 646 depends on X86_32 647 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 648 depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES 649 depends on X86_TSC 650 depends on PCI 651 depends on PCI_GOANY 652 depends on X86_IO_APIC 653 select IOSF_MBI 654 select INTEL_IMR 655 select COMMON_CLK 656 help 657 Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC. 658 Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino 659 compatible Intel Galileo. 660 661 config X86_INTEL_LPSS 662 bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support" 663 depends on X86 && ACPI && PCI 664 select COMMON_CLK 665 select PINCTRL 666 select IOSF_MBI 667 help 668 Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as 669 found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables 670 things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol 671 which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers. 672 673 config X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE 674 bool "AMD ACPI2Platform devices support" 675 depends on ACPI 676 select COMMON_CLK 677 select PINCTRL 678 help 679 Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device 680 such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets. 681 I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is 682 implemented under PINCTRL subsystem. 683 684 config IOSF_MBI 685 tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms" 686 depends on PCI 687 help 688 This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC 689 platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of 690 MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal 691 and power. Drivers may query the availability of this device to 692 determine if they need the sideband in order to work on these 693 platforms. The sideband is available on the following SoC products. 694 This list is not meant to be exclusive. 695 - BayTrail 696 - Braswell 697 - Quark 698 699 You should say Y if you are running a kernel on one of these SoC's. 700 701 config IOSF_MBI_DEBUG 702 bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs" 703 depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS 704 help 705 Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR, 706 MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from 707 different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device 708 state information for debug and analysis. As this is a general access 709 mechanism, users of this option would have specific knowledge of the 710 device they want to access. 711 712 If you don't require the option or are in doubt, say N. 713 714 config X86_RDC321X 715 bool "RDC R-321x SoC" 716 depends on X86_32 717 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 718 select M486 719 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 720 help 721 This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known 722 as R-8610-(G). 723 If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. 724 725 config X86_32_NON_STANDARD 726 bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" 727 depends on X86_32 && SMP 728 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM 729 help 730 This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default 731 subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary 732 kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by 733 one and will fallback to default. 734 735 # Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms 736 737 config X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 738 def_bool y 739 # MCE code calls memory_failure(): 740 depends on X86_MCE 741 # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags: 742 # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH: 743 depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM 744 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE 745 746 config STA2X11 747 bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support" 748 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI 749 select SWIOTLB 750 select MFD_STA2X11 751 select GPIOLIB 752 help 753 This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub, 754 a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard 755 PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this 756 option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on 757 standard PC machines. 758 759 config X86_32_IRIS 760 tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module" 761 depends on X86_32 762 help 763 The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support 764 to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is 765 needed to do so, which is what this module does at 766 kernel shutdown. 767 768 This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille. 769 770 If unused, say N. 771 772 config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER 773 def_bool y 774 prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" 775 depends on X86 776 help 777 Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option 778 is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the 779 caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, 780 at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead. 781 782 If in doubt, say "Y". 783 784 menuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST 785 bool "Linux guest support" 786 help 787 Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper- 788 visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform 789 setup. 790 791 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 792 disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in. 793 794 if HYPERVISOR_GUEST 795 796 config PARAVIRT 797 bool "Enable paravirtualization code" 798 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL 799 help 800 This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run 801 under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly 802 over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor 803 the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger. 804 805 config PARAVIRT_XXL 806 bool 807 808 config PARAVIRT_DEBUG 809 bool "paravirt-ops debugging" 810 depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL 811 help 812 Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if 813 a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. 814 815 config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS 816 bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks" 817 depends on PARAVIRT && SMP 818 help 819 Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the 820 spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly 821 (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning). 822 823 It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance 824 benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels. 825 826 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. 827 828 config X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 829 def_bool n 830 831 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig" 832 833 config KVM_GUEST 834 bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)" 835 depends on PARAVIRT 836 select PARAVIRT_CLOCK 837 select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL 838 select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 839 default y 840 help 841 This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM 842 hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead 843 of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the 844 underlying device model, the host provides the guest with 845 timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time 846 847 config ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL 848 def_bool n 849 prompt "Disable host haltpoll when loading haltpoll driver" 850 help 851 If virtualized under KVM, disable host haltpoll. 852 853 config PVH 854 bool "Support for running PVH guests" 855 help 856 This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines 857 as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI. 858 859 config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING 860 bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" 861 depends on PARAVIRT 862 help 863 Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time 864 accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with 865 the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for 866 that, there can be a small performance impact. 867 868 If in doubt, say N here. 869 870 config PARAVIRT_CLOCK 871 bool 872 873 config JAILHOUSE_GUEST 874 bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support" 875 depends on X86_64 && PCI 876 select X86_PM_TIMER 877 help 878 This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root 879 cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start 880 Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell. 881 882 config ACRN_GUEST 883 bool "ACRN Guest support" 884 depends on X86_64 885 select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR 886 help 887 This option allows to run Linux as guest in the ACRN hypervisor. ACRN is 888 a flexible, lightweight reference open-source hypervisor, built with 889 real-time and safety-criticality in mind. It is built for embedded 890 IOT with small footprint and real-time features. More details can be 891 found in https://projectacrn.org/. 892 893 config INTEL_TDX_GUEST 894 bool "Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) - Guest Support" 895 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL 896 depends on X86_X2APIC 897 depends on EFI_STUB 898 select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 899 select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT 900 select X86_MCE 901 select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY 902 help 903 Support running as a guest under Intel TDX. Without this support, 904 the guest kernel can not boot or run under TDX. 905 TDX includes memory encryption and integrity capabilities 906 which protect the confidentiality and integrity of guest 907 memory contents and CPU state. TDX guests are protected from 908 some attacks from the VMM. 909 910 endif # HYPERVISOR_GUEST 911 912 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" 913 914 config HPET_TIMER 915 def_bool X86_64 916 prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 917 help 918 Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage 919 time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is 920 present. 921 HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. 922 The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP 923 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, 924 as it is off-chip. The interface used is documented 925 in the HPET spec, revision 1. 926 927 You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be 928 activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. 929 Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. 930 931 Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. 932 933 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC 934 def_bool y 935 depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y) 936 937 # Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong. 938 # The code disables itself when not needed. 939 config DMI 940 default y 941 select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK 942 bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT 943 help 944 Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y 945 here unless you have verified that your setup is not 946 affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP 947 BIOS code. 948 949 config GART_IOMMU 950 bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" 951 select IOMMU_HELPER 952 select SWIOTLB 953 depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB 954 help 955 Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron 956 GART based hardware IOMMUs. 957 958 The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access 959 limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed 960 for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. 961 962 Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via 963 the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. 964 965 In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: 966 there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a 967 32-bit limited device. 968 969 If unsure, say Y. 970 971 config BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT 972 bool 973 help 974 If true, at least one selected framebuffer driver can take advantage 975 of VESA video modes set at an early boot stage via the vga= parameter. 976 977 config MAXSMP 978 bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes" 979 depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL 980 select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 981 help 982 Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. 983 If unsure, say N. 984 985 # 986 # The maximum number of CPUs supported: 987 # 988 # The main config value is NR_CPUS, which defaults to NR_CPUS_DEFAULT, 989 # and which can be configured interactively in the 990 # [NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN ... NR_CPUS_RANGE_END] range. 991 # 992 # The ranges are different on 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, depending on 993 # hardware capabilities and scalability features of the kernel. 994 # 995 # ( If MAXSMP is enabled we just use the highest possible value and disable 996 # interactive configuration. ) 997 # 998 999 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN 1000 int 1001 default NR_CPUS_RANGE_END if MAXSMP 1002 default 1 if !SMP 1003 default 2 1004 1005 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 1006 int 1007 depends on X86_32 1008 default 64 if SMP && X86_BIGSMP 1009 default 8 if SMP && !X86_BIGSMP 1010 default 1 if !SMP 1011 1012 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 1013 int 1014 depends on X86_64 1015 default 8192 if SMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 1016 default 512 if SMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK 1017 default 1 if !SMP 1018 1019 config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 1020 int 1021 depends on X86_32 1022 default 32 if X86_BIGSMP 1023 default 8 if SMP 1024 default 1 if !SMP 1025 1026 config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 1027 int 1028 depends on X86_64 1029 default 8192 if MAXSMP 1030 default 64 if SMP 1031 default 1 if !SMP 1032 1033 config NR_CPUS 1034 int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP 1035 range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END 1036 default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT 1037 help 1038 This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this 1039 kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum 1040 supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The 1041 minimum value which makes sense is 2. 1042 1043 This is purely to save memory: each supported CPU adds about 8KB 1044 to the kernel image. 1045 1046 config SCHED_CLUSTER 1047 bool "Cluster scheduler support" 1048 depends on SMP 1049 default y 1050 help 1051 Cluster scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 1052 making when dealing with machines that have clusters of CPUs. 1053 Cluster usually means a couple of CPUs which are placed closely 1054 by sharing mid-level caches, last-level cache tags or internal 1055 busses. 1056 1057 config SCHED_SMT 1058 def_bool y if SMP 1059 1060 config SCHED_MC 1061 def_bool y 1062 prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" 1063 depends on SMP 1064 help 1065 Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision 1066 making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly 1067 increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. 1068 1069 config SCHED_MC_PRIO 1070 bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support" 1071 depends on SCHED_MC 1072 select X86_INTEL_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_INTEL 1073 select X86_AMD_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_AMD && ACPI 1074 select CPU_FREQ 1075 default y 1076 help 1077 Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a 1078 core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows 1079 certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running 1080 single threaded workloads) than others. 1081 1082 Enabling this kernel feature teaches the scheduler about 1083 the TBM3 (aka ITMT) priority order of the CPU cores and adjusts the 1084 scheduler's CPU selection logic accordingly, so that higher 1085 overall system performance can be achieved. 1086 1087 This feature will have no effect on CPUs without this feature. 1088 1089 If unsure say Y here. 1090 1091 config UP_LATE_INIT 1092 def_bool y 1093 depends on !SMP && X86_LOCAL_APIC 1094 1095 config X86_UP_APIC 1096 bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI 1097 default PCI_MSI 1098 depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1099 help 1100 A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 1101 integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU 1102 system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to 1103 enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't 1104 have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at 1105 all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer, 1106 performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard 1107 lockups. 1108 1109 config X86_UP_IOAPIC 1110 bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" 1111 depends on X86_UP_APIC 1112 help 1113 An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an 1114 SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most 1115 SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. 1116 1117 If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here 1118 to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have 1119 an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all. 1120 1121 config X86_LOCAL_APIC 1122 def_bool y 1123 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI 1124 select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY 1125 1126 config ACPI_MADT_WAKEUP 1127 def_bool y 1128 depends on X86_64 1129 depends on ACPI 1130 depends on SMP 1131 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC 1132 1133 config X86_IO_APIC 1134 def_bool y 1135 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_UP_IOAPIC 1136 1137 config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS 1138 bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" 1139 depends on X86_IO_APIC 1140 help 1141 This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of 1142 spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded 1143 interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of 1144 superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled. 1145 1146 Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ 1147 entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT 1148 kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this 1149 boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps 1150 the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot 1151 IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the 1152 kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this 1153 way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise 1154 the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring 1155 down (vital) interrupt lines. 1156 1157 Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be 1158 increased on these systems. 1159 1160 config X86_MCE 1161 bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" 1162 select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR 1163 default y 1164 help 1165 Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the 1166 kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). 1167 The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, 1168 ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. 1169 1170 config X86_MCELOG_LEGACY 1171 bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device" 1172 depends on X86_MCE 1173 help 1174 Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog 1175 userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation 1176 rasdaemon solution. 1177 1178 config X86_MCE_INTEL 1179 def_bool y 1180 prompt "Intel MCE features" 1181 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC 1182 help 1183 Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as 1184 the thermal monitor. 1185 1186 config X86_MCE_AMD 1187 def_bool y 1188 prompt "AMD MCE features" 1189 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && AMD_NB 1190 help 1191 Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as 1192 the DRAM Error Threshold. 1193 1194 config X86_ANCIENT_MCE 1195 bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" 1196 depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE 1197 help 1198 Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip 1199 systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command 1200 line. 1201 1202 config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD 1203 depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL 1204 def_bool y 1205 1206 config X86_MCE_INJECT 1207 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS 1208 tristate "Machine check injector support" 1209 help 1210 Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. 1211 If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel 1212 QA it is safe to say n. 1213 1214 source "arch/x86/events/Kconfig" 1215 1216 config X86_LEGACY_VM86 1217 bool "Legacy VM86 support" 1218 depends on X86_32 1219 help 1220 This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086 1221 mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode. 1222 1223 Some very old versions of X and/or vbetool require this option 1224 for user mode setting. Similarly, DOSEMU will use it if 1225 available to accelerate real mode DOS programs. However, any 1226 recent version of DOSEMU, X, or vbetool should be fully 1227 functional even without kernel VM86 support, as they will all 1228 fall back to software emulation. Nevertheless, if you are using 1229 a 16-bit DOS program where 16-bit performance matters, vm86 1230 mode might be faster than emulation and you might want to 1231 enable this option. 1232 1233 Note that any app that works on a 64-bit kernel is unlikely to 1234 need this option, as 64-bit kernels don't, and can't, support 1235 V8086 mode. This option is also unrelated to 16-bit protected 1236 mode and is not needed to run most 16-bit programs under Wine. 1237 1238 Enabling this option increases the complexity of the kernel 1239 and slows down exception handling a tiny bit. 1240 1241 If unsure, say N here. 1242 1243 config VM86 1244 bool 1245 default X86_LEGACY_VM86 1246 1247 config X86_16BIT 1248 bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT 1249 default y 1250 depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 1251 help 1252 This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit 1253 protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling 1254 this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text 1255 plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64, 1256 1257 config X86_ESPFIX32 1258 def_bool y 1259 depends on X86_16BIT && X86_32 1260 1261 config X86_ESPFIX64 1262 def_bool y 1263 depends on X86_16BIT && X86_64 1264 1265 config X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION 1266 bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT 1267 default y 1268 depends on X86_64 1269 help 1270 This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling 1271 it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except 1272 that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program 1273 tries to use a vsyscall. With this option set to N, offending 1274 programs will just segfault, citing addresses of the form 1275 0xffffffffff600?00. 1276 1277 This option is required by many programs built before 2013, and 1278 care should be used even with newer programs if set to N. 1279 1280 Disabling this option saves about 7K of kernel size and 1281 possibly 4K of additional runtime pagetable memory. 1282 1283 config X86_IOPL_IOPERM 1284 bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation" 1285 default y 1286 help 1287 This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary 1288 for legacy applications. 1289 1290 Legacy IOPL support is an overbroad mechanism which allows user 1291 space aside of accessing all 65536 I/O ports also to disable 1292 interrupts. To gain this access the caller needs CAP_SYS_RAWIO 1293 capabilities and permission from potentially active security 1294 modules. 1295 1296 The emulation restricts the functionality of the syscall to 1297 only allowing the full range I/O port access, but prevents the 1298 ability to disable interrupts from user space which would be 1299 granted if the hardware IOPL mechanism would be used. 1300 1301 config TOSHIBA 1302 tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" 1303 depends on X86_32 1304 help 1305 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of 1306 the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does 1307 not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode 1308 is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables. 1309 1310 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the 1311 Toshiba Linux utilities web site at: 1312 <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>. 1313 1314 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable. 1315 Say N otherwise. 1316 1317 config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS 1318 bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot" 1319 depends on X86_32 1320 help 1321 This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done 1322 in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on 1323 some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which 1324 this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung 1325 system. 1326 1327 Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using 1328 CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC. 1329 1330 Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to 1331 enable this option even if you don't need it. 1332 Say N otherwise. 1333 1334 config MICROCODE 1335 def_bool y 1336 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL 1337 1338 config MICROCODE_INITRD32 1339 def_bool y 1340 depends on MICROCODE && X86_32 && BLK_DEV_INITRD 1341 1342 config MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING 1343 bool "Late microcode loading (DANGEROUS)" 1344 default n 1345 depends on MICROCODE && SMP 1346 help 1347 Loading microcode late, when the system is up and executing instructions 1348 is a tricky business and should be avoided if possible. Just the sequence 1349 of synchronizing all cores and SMT threads is one fragile dance which does 1350 not guarantee that cores might not softlock after the loading. Therefore, 1351 use this at your own risk. Late loading taints the kernel unless the 1352 microcode header indicates that it is safe for late loading via the 1353 minimal revision check. This minimal revision check can be enforced on 1354 the kernel command line with "microcode.minrev=Y". 1355 1356 config MICROCODE_LATE_FORCE_MINREV 1357 bool "Enforce late microcode loading minimal revision check" 1358 default n 1359 depends on MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING 1360 help 1361 To prevent that users load microcode late which modifies already 1362 in use features, newer microcode patches have a minimum revision field 1363 in the microcode header, which tells the kernel which minimum 1364 revision must be active in the CPU to safely load that new microcode 1365 late into the running system. If disabled the check will not 1366 be enforced but the kernel will be tainted when the minimal 1367 revision check fails. 1368 1369 This minimal revision check can also be controlled via the 1370 "microcode.minrev" parameter on the kernel command line. 1371 1372 If unsure say Y. 1373 1374 config X86_MSR 1375 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" 1376 help 1377 This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 1378 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with 1379 major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. 1380 MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor 1381 systems. 1382 1383 config X86_CPUID 1384 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" 1385 help 1386 This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to 1387 be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device 1388 with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to 1389 /dev/cpu/31/cpuid. 1390 1391 choice 1392 prompt "High Memory Support" 1393 default HIGHMEM4G 1394 depends on X86_32 1395 1396 config NOHIGHMEM 1397 bool "off" 1398 help 1399 Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. 1400 However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 1401 Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of 1402 physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the 1403 kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called 1404 "high memory". 1405 1406 If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with 1407 more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default 1408 choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB" 1409 split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory 1410 space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used 1411 by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as 1412 possible. 1413 1414 If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then 1415 answer "4GB" here. 1416 1417 If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This 1418 selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on. 1419 PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully 1420 supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel 1421 processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here, 1422 then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE! 1423 1424 The actual amount of total physical memory will either be 1425 auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option 1426 such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of 1427 your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the 1428 kernel at boot time.) 1429 1430 If unsure, say "off". 1431 1432 config HIGHMEM4G 1433 bool "4GB" 1434 help 1435 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 1436 gigabytes of physical RAM. 1437 1438 config HIGHMEM64G 1439 bool "64GB" 1440 depends on X86_HAVE_PAE 1441 select X86_PAE 1442 help 1443 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 1444 gigabytes of physical RAM. 1445 1446 endchoice 1447 1448 choice 1449 prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT 1450 default VMSPLIT_3G 1451 depends on X86_32 1452 help 1453 Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. 1454 1455 If the address range available to the kernel is less than the 1456 physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available 1457 as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly 1458 than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first. 1459 Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range 1460 available to user programs, making the address space there 1461 tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split 1462 will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only 1463 kernel modules. 1464 1465 If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this 1466 option alone! 1467 1468 config VMSPLIT_3G 1469 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" 1470 config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1471 depends on !X86_PAE 1472 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" 1473 config VMSPLIT_2G 1474 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" 1475 config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1476 depends on !X86_PAE 1477 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" 1478 config VMSPLIT_1G 1479 bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" 1480 endchoice 1481 1482 config PAGE_OFFSET 1483 hex 1484 default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT 1485 default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G 1486 default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT 1487 default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G 1488 default 0xC0000000 1489 depends on X86_32 1490 1491 config HIGHMEM 1492 def_bool y 1493 depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G) 1494 1495 config X86_PAE 1496 bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" 1497 depends on X86_32 && X86_HAVE_PAE 1498 select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1499 select SWIOTLB 1500 help 1501 PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables 1502 larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It 1503 has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also 1504 consumes more pagetable space per process. 1505 1506 config X86_5LEVEL 1507 bool "Enable 5-level page tables support" 1508 default y 1509 select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT 1510 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 1511 depends on X86_64 1512 help 1513 5-level paging enables access to larger address space: 1514 up to 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of 1515 physical address space. 1516 1517 It will be supported by future Intel CPUs. 1518 1519 A kernel with the option enabled can be booted on machines that 1520 support 4- or 5-level paging. 1521 1522 See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst for more 1523 information. 1524 1525 Say N if unsure. 1526 1527 config X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES 1528 def_bool y 1529 depends on X86_64 1530 help 1531 Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel 1532 linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise 1533 supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing 1534 that we have them enabled. 1535 1536 config X86_CPA_STATISTICS 1537 bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute" 1538 depends on DEBUG_FS 1539 help 1540 Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which 1541 helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge 1542 page mappings when mapping protections are changed. 1543 1544 config X86_MEM_ENCRYPT 1545 select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED 1546 select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK 1547 def_bool n 1548 1549 config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT 1550 bool "AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support" 1551 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_AMD 1552 depends on EFI_STUB 1553 select DMA_COHERENT_POOL 1554 select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1555 select INSTRUCTION_DECODER 1556 select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM 1557 select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT 1558 select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY 1559 help 1560 Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory. 1561 This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory 1562 Encryption (SME). 1563 1564 # Common NUMA Features 1565 config NUMA 1566 bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" 1567 depends on SMP 1568 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP) 1569 default y if X86_BIGSMP 1570 select USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID 1571 select OF_NUMA if OF 1572 help 1573 Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support. 1574 1575 The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the 1576 local memory controller of the CPU and add some more 1577 NUMA awareness to the kernel. 1578 1579 For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 1580 (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. 1581 1582 For 32-bit this is only needed if you boot a 32-bit 1583 kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. 1584 1585 Otherwise, you should say N. 1586 1587 config AMD_NUMA 1588 def_bool y 1589 prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" 1590 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI 1591 help 1592 Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if 1593 you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to 1594 read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge 1595 of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead, 1596 which also takes priority if both are compiled in. 1597 1598 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA 1599 def_bool y 1600 prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" 1601 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI 1602 select ACPI_NUMA 1603 help 1604 Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. 1605 1606 config NODES_SHIFT 1607 int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP 1608 range 1 10 1609 default "10" if MAXSMP 1610 default "6" if X86_64 1611 default "3" 1612 depends on NUMA 1613 help 1614 Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target 1615 system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables. 1616 1617 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1618 def_bool y 1619 depends on X86_32 && !NUMA 1620 1621 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE 1622 def_bool y 1623 depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD 1624 select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32 1625 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64 1626 1627 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT 1628 def_bool X86_64 || (NUMA && X86_32) 1629 1630 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL 1631 def_bool y 1632 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE && ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE 1633 1634 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE 1635 bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface" 1636 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG 1637 help 1638 This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing. 1639 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information. 1640 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1641 1642 config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT 1643 def_bool y 1644 depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE 1645 1646 config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE 1647 hex 1648 default 0 if X86_32 1649 default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64 1650 1651 config X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE 1652 bool 1653 1654 config X86_PMEM_LEGACY 1655 tristate "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory" 1656 depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT 1657 depends on BLK_DEV 1658 select X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE 1659 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1660 select LIBNVDIMM 1661 help 1662 Treat memory marked using the non-standard e820 type of 12 as used 1663 by the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP reference BIOS as protected memory. 1664 The kernel will offer these regions to the 'pmem' driver so 1665 they can be used for persistent storage. 1666 1667 Say Y if unsure. 1668 1669 config HIGHPTE 1670 bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" 1671 depends on HIGHMEM 1672 help 1673 The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. 1674 For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious 1675 low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table 1676 entries in high memory. 1677 1678 config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1679 bool "Check for low memory corruption" 1680 help 1681 Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which 1682 is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the 1683 configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by 1684 setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command 1685 line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 1686 seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and 1687 memory_corruption_check_period parameters in 1688 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst to adjust this. 1689 1690 When enabled with the default parameters, this option has 1691 almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount 1692 of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption 1693 and prevents it from affecting the running system. 1694 1695 It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable 1696 BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, 1697 you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that 1698 memory. 1699 1700 config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK 1701 bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" 1702 depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION 1703 default y 1704 help 1705 Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is 1706 on or off. 1707 1708 config MATH_EMULATION 1709 bool 1710 depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 1711 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN) 1712 help 1713 Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point 1714 operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have 1715 a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added 1716 a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can 1717 give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a 1718 coprocessor or this emulation. 1719 1720 If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you 1721 say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will 1722 be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel 1723 command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor 1724 is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot 1725 loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at 1726 boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you 1727 intend to use this kernel on different machines. 1728 1729 More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor 1730 emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>. 1731 1732 If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger 1733 kernel, it won't hurt. 1734 1735 config MTRR 1736 def_bool y 1737 prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT 1738 help 1739 On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) 1740 the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control 1741 processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have 1742 a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining 1743 allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer 1744 before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance 1745 of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a 1746 /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's 1747 MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. 1748 1749 This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar 1750 control registers on other processors can be easily supported 1751 as well: 1752 1753 The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range 1754 Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For 1755 these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs. 1756 The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 1757 MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing 1758 write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code 1759 and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them. 1760 1761 Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only 1762 set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This 1763 can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here. 1764 1765 You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1766 just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1767 1768 See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/mtrr.rst> for more information. 1769 1770 config MTRR_SANITIZER 1771 def_bool y 1772 prompt "MTRR cleanup support" 1773 depends on MTRR 1774 help 1775 Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can 1776 add writeback entries. 1777 1778 Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line. 1779 The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with 1780 mtrr_chunk_size. 1781 1782 If unsure, say Y. 1783 1784 config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1785 int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)" 1786 range 0 1 1787 default "0" 1788 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 1789 help 1790 Enable mtrr cleanup default value 1791 1792 config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT 1793 int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)" 1794 range 0 7 1795 default "1" 1796 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER 1797 help 1798 mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via 1799 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. 1800 1801 config X86_PAT 1802 def_bool y 1803 prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT 1804 depends on MTRR 1805 select ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 1806 help 1807 Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. 1808 1809 PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more 1810 flexible than MTRRs. 1811 1812 Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang, 1813 spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver. 1814 1815 If unsure, say Y. 1816 1817 config X86_UMIP 1818 def_bool y 1819 prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT 1820 help 1821 User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in 1822 some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is 1823 issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are 1824 executed in user mode. These instructions unnecessarily expose 1825 information about the hardware state. 1826 1827 The vast majority of applications do not use these instructions. 1828 For the very few that do, software emulation is provided in 1829 specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated 1830 results are dummy. 1831 1832 config CC_HAS_IBT 1833 # GCC >= 9 and binutils >= 2.29 1834 # Retpoline check to work around https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93654 1835 # Clang/LLVM >= 14 1836 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e0b89df2e0f0130881bf6c39bf31d7f6aac00e0f 1837 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dfcf69770bc522b9e411c66454934a37c1f35332 1838 def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || \ 1839 (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \ 1840 $(as-instr,endbr64) 1841 1842 config X86_CET 1843 def_bool n 1844 help 1845 CET features configured (Shadow stack or IBT) 1846 1847 config X86_KERNEL_IBT 1848 prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking" 1849 def_bool y 1850 depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && HAVE_OBJTOOL 1851 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f 1852 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000 1853 select OBJTOOL 1854 select X86_CET 1855 help 1856 Build the kernel with support for Indirect Branch Tracking, a 1857 hardware support course-grain forward-edge Control Flow Integrity 1858 protection. It enforces that all indirect calls must land on 1859 an ENDBR instruction, as such, the compiler will instrument the 1860 code with them to make this happen. 1861 1862 In addition to building the kernel with IBT, seal all functions that 1863 are not indirect call targets, avoiding them ever becoming one. 1864 1865 This requires LTO like objtool runs and will slow down the build. It 1866 does significantly reduce the number of ENDBR instructions in the 1867 kernel image. 1868 1869 config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS 1870 prompt "Memory Protection Keys" 1871 def_bool y 1872 # Note: only available in 64-bit mode 1873 depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) 1874 select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1875 select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS 1876 help 1877 Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing 1878 page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the 1879 page tables when an application changes protection domains. 1880 1881 For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst 1882 1883 If unsure, say y. 1884 1885 config ARCH_PKEY_BITS 1886 int 1887 default 4 1888 1889 choice 1890 prompt "TSX enable mode" 1891 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 1892 default X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF 1893 help 1894 Intel's TSX (Transactional Synchronization Extensions) feature 1895 allows to optimize locking protocols through lock elision which 1896 can lead to a noticeable performance boost. 1897 1898 On the other hand it has been shown that TSX can be exploited 1899 to form side channel attacks (e.g. TAA) and chances are there 1900 will be more of those attacks discovered in the future. 1901 1902 Therefore TSX is not enabled by default (aka tsx=off). An admin 1903 might override this decision by tsx=on the command line parameter. 1904 Even with TSX enabled, the kernel will attempt to enable the best 1905 possible TAA mitigation setting depending on the microcode available 1906 for the particular machine. 1907 1908 This option allows to set the default tsx mode between tsx=on, =off 1909 and =auto. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more 1910 details. 1911 1912 Say off if not sure, auto if TSX is in use but it should be used on safe 1913 platforms or on if TSX is in use and the security aspect of tsx is not 1914 relevant. 1915 1916 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF 1917 bool "off" 1918 help 1919 TSX is disabled if possible - equals to tsx=off command line parameter. 1920 1921 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON 1922 bool "on" 1923 help 1924 TSX is always enabled on TSX capable HW - equals the tsx=on command 1925 line parameter. 1926 1927 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO 1928 bool "auto" 1929 help 1930 TSX is enabled on TSX capable HW that is believed to be safe against 1931 side channel attacks- equals the tsx=auto command line parameter. 1932 endchoice 1933 1934 config X86_SGX 1935 bool "Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)" 1936 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_X2APIC 1937 depends on CRYPTO=y 1938 depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y 1939 select MMU_NOTIFIER 1940 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA 1941 select XARRAY_MULTI 1942 help 1943 Intel(R) Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions 1944 that can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code 1945 and data, referred to as enclaves. An enclave's private memory can 1946 only be accessed by code running within the enclave. Accesses from 1947 outside the enclave, including other enclaves, are disallowed by 1948 hardware. 1949 1950 If unsure, say N. 1951 1952 config X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK 1953 bool "X86 userspace shadow stack" 1954 depends on AS_WRUSS 1955 depends on X86_64 1956 select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS 1957 select X86_CET 1958 help 1959 Shadow stack protection is a hardware feature that detects function 1960 return address corruption. This helps mitigate ROP attacks. 1961 Applications must be enabled to use it, and old userspace does not 1962 get protection "for free". 1963 1964 CPUs supporting shadow stacks were first released in 2020. 1965 1966 See Documentation/arch/x86/shstk.rst for more information. 1967 1968 If unsure, say N. 1969 1970 config INTEL_TDX_HOST 1971 bool "Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) host support" 1972 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 1973 depends on X86_64 1974 depends on KVM_INTEL 1975 depends on X86_X2APIC 1976 select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK 1977 depends on CONTIG_ALLOC 1978 depends on !KEXEC_CORE 1979 depends on X86_MCE 1980 help 1981 Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious 1982 host and certain physical attacks. This option enables necessary TDX 1983 support in the host kernel to run confidential VMs. 1984 1985 If unsure, say N. 1986 1987 config EFI 1988 bool "EFI runtime service support" 1989 depends on ACPI 1990 select UCS2_STRING 1991 select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS 1992 select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT 1993 select EFI_RUNTIME_MAP if KEXEC_CORE 1994 help 1995 This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are 1996 available (such as the EFI variable services). 1997 1998 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. 1999 In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available 2000 at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage 2001 of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the 2002 resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI 2003 platforms. 2004 2005 config EFI_STUB 2006 bool "EFI stub support" 2007 depends on EFI 2008 select RELOCATABLE 2009 help 2010 This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly 2011 by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. 2012 2013 See Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst for more information. 2014 2015 config EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL 2016 bool "EFI handover protocol (DEPRECATED)" 2017 depends on EFI_STUB 2018 default y 2019 help 2020 Select this in order to include support for the deprecated EFI 2021 handover protocol, which defines alternative entry points into the 2022 EFI stub. This is a practice that has no basis in the UEFI 2023 specification, and requires a priori knowledge on the part of the 2024 bootloader about Linux/x86 specific ways of passing the command line 2025 and initrd, and where in memory those assets may be loaded. 2026 2027 If in doubt, say Y. Even though the corresponding support is not 2028 present in upstream GRUB or other bootloaders, most distros build 2029 GRUB with numerous downstream patches applied, and may rely on the 2030 handover protocol as as result. 2031 2032 config EFI_MIXED 2033 bool "EFI mixed-mode support" 2034 depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64 2035 help 2036 Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted 2037 on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit 2038 mode. 2039 2040 Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled 2041 kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports 2042 the EFI handover protocol must be used. 2043 2044 If unsure, say N. 2045 2046 config EFI_RUNTIME_MAP 2047 bool "Export EFI runtime maps to sysfs" if EXPERT 2048 depends on EFI 2049 help 2050 Export EFI runtime memory regions to /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map. 2051 That memory map is required by the 2nd kernel to set up EFI virtual 2052 mappings after kexec, but can also be used for debugging purposes. 2053 2054 See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map. 2055 2056 source "kernel/Kconfig.hz" 2057 2058 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC 2059 def_bool y 2060 2061 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE 2062 def_bool X86_64 2063 2064 config ARCH_SELECTS_KEXEC_FILE 2065 def_bool y 2066 depends on KEXEC_FILE 2067 select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA 2068 2069 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_PURGATORY 2070 def_bool y 2071 2072 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG 2073 def_bool y 2074 2075 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG_FORCE 2076 def_bool y 2077 2078 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG 2079 def_bool y 2080 2081 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_JUMP 2082 def_bool y 2083 2084 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP 2085 def_bool X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) 2086 2087 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_HOTPLUG 2088 def_bool y 2089 2090 config ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION 2091 def_bool CRASH_RESERVE 2092 2093 config PHYSICAL_START 2094 hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP) 2095 default "0x1000000" 2096 help 2097 This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. 2098 2099 If the kernel is not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then bzImage 2100 will decompress itself to above physical address and run from there. 2101 Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where it has been loaded 2102 by the boot loader. The only exception is if it is loaded below the 2103 above physical address, in which case it will relocate itself there. 2104 2105 In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option 2106 as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image 2107 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different 2108 address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want 2109 to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a 2110 vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs 2111 to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area 2112 (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy. 2113 2114 So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, 2115 leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set 2116 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux 2117 for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of 2118 the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on 2119 the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" 2120 command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed 2121 kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst 2122 for more details about crash dumps. 2123 2124 Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as 2125 one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used 2126 as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have 2127 gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it 2128 is present because there are users out there who continue to use 2129 vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the 2130 line. 2131 2132 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 2133 2134 config RELOCATABLE 2135 bool "Build a relocatable kernel" 2136 default y 2137 help 2138 This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information 2139 so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. 2140 The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, 2141 but are discarded at runtime. 2142 2143 One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 2144 must live at a different physical address than the primary 2145 kernel. 2146 2147 Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 2148 it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address 2149 (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location. 2150 2151 config RANDOMIZE_BASE 2152 bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)" 2153 depends on RELOCATABLE 2154 default y 2155 help 2156 In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR), 2157 this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image 2158 is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel 2159 image is mapped, as a security feature that deters exploit 2160 attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel 2161 code internals. 2162 2163 On 64-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are 2164 randomized separately. The physical address will be anywhere 2165 between 16MB and the top of physical memory (up to 64TB). The 2166 virtual address will be randomized from 16MB up to 1GB (9 bits 2167 of entropy). Note that this also reduces the memory space 2168 available to kernel modules from 1.5GB to 1GB. 2169 2170 On 32-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are 2171 randomized together. They will be randomized from 16MB up to 2172 512MB (8 bits of entropy). 2173 2174 Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is 2175 supported. If RDTSC is supported, its value is mixed into 2176 the entropy pool as well. If neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are 2177 supported, then entropy is read from the i8254 timer. The 2178 usable entropy is limited by the kernel being built using 2179 2GB addressing, and that PHYSICAL_ALIGN must be at a 2180 minimum of 2MB. As a result, only 10 bits of entropy are 2181 theoretically possible, but the implementations are further 2182 limited due to memory layouts. 2183 2184 If unsure, say Y. 2185 2186 # Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support 2187 config X86_NEED_RELOCS 2188 def_bool y 2189 depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE) 2190 2191 config PHYSICAL_ALIGN 2192 hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" 2193 default "0x200000" 2194 range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32 2195 range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64 2196 help 2197 This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address 2198 where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an 2199 address which meets above alignment restriction. 2200 2201 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 2202 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest 2203 address aligned to above value and run from there. 2204 2205 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and 2206 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time 2207 load address and decompress itself to the address it has been 2208 compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is 2209 compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the 2210 end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting 2211 above alignment restrictions. 2212 2213 On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit 2214 this value must be a multiple of 0x200000. 2215 2216 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. 2217 2218 config DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT 2219 bool 2220 help 2221 This option makes base addresses of vmalloc and vmemmap as well as 2222 __PAGE_OFFSET movable during boot. 2223 2224 config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY 2225 bool "Randomize the kernel memory sections" 2226 depends on X86_64 2227 depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE 2228 select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT 2229 default RANDOMIZE_BASE 2230 help 2231 Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections 2232 (physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature 2233 makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable. 2234 2235 The order of allocations remains unchanged. Entropy is generated in 2236 the same way as RANDOMIZE_BASE. Current implementation in the optimal 2237 configuration have in average 30,000 different possible virtual 2238 addresses for each memory section. 2239 2240 If unsure, say Y. 2241 2242 config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING 2243 hex "Physical memory mapping padding" if EXPERT 2244 depends on RANDOMIZE_MEMORY 2245 default "0xa" if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2246 default "0x0" 2247 range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2248 range 0x0 0x40 2249 help 2250 Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical 2251 memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful 2252 for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for 2253 address randomization. 2254 2255 If unsure, leave at the default value. 2256 2257 config ADDRESS_MASKING 2258 bool "Linear Address Masking support" 2259 depends on X86_64 2260 depends on COMPILE_TEST || !CPU_MITIGATIONS # wait for LASS 2261 help 2262 Linear Address Masking (LAM) modifies the checking that is applied 2263 to 64-bit linear addresses, allowing software to use of the 2264 untranslated address bits for metadata. 2265 2266 The capability can be used for efficient address sanitizers (ASAN) 2267 implementation and for optimizations in JITs. 2268 2269 config HOTPLUG_CPU 2270 def_bool y 2271 depends on SMP 2272 2273 config COMPAT_VDSO 2274 def_bool n 2275 prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)" 2276 depends on COMPAT_32 2277 help 2278 Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are 2279 presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address 2280 indicated in its segment table. 2281 2282 The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a 2283 and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and 2284 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is 2285 the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9 2286 contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2". 2287 2288 The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying: 2289 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 2290 2291 Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot 2292 option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely. 2293 This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance. 2294 2295 If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you 2296 are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc. 2297 2298 choice 2299 prompt "vsyscall table for legacy applications" 2300 depends on X86_64 2301 default LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY 2302 help 2303 Legacy user code that does not know how to find the vDSO expects 2304 to be able to issue three syscalls by calling fixed addresses in 2305 kernel space. Since this location is not randomized with ASLR, 2306 it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation. 2307 2308 This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command 2309 line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|xonly|none]. Emulate mode 2310 is deprecated and can only be enabled using the kernel command 2311 line. 2312 2313 On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no 2314 static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty 2315 to improve security. 2316 2317 If unsure, select "Emulate execution only". 2318 2319 config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY 2320 bool "Emulate execution only" 2321 help 2322 The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall 2323 address mapping and does not allow reads. This 2324 configuration is recommended when userspace might use the 2325 legacy vsyscall area but support for legacy binary 2326 instrumentation of legacy code is not needed. It mitigates 2327 certain uses of the vsyscall area as an ASLR-bypassing 2328 buffer. 2329 2330 config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE 2331 bool "None" 2332 help 2333 There will be no vsyscall mapping at all. This will 2334 eliminate any risk of ASLR bypass due to the vsyscall 2335 fixed address mapping. Attempts to use the vsyscalls 2336 will be reported to dmesg, so that either old or 2337 malicious userspace programs can be identified. 2338 2339 endchoice 2340 2341 config CMDLINE_BOOL 2342 bool "Built-in kernel command line" 2343 help 2344 Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at 2345 build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is 2346 necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the 2347 kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is, 2348 to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.) 2349 2350 To compile command line arguments into the kernel, 2351 set this option to 'Y', then fill in the 2352 boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE. 2353 2354 Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded) 2355 should leave this option set to 'N'. 2356 2357 config CMDLINE 2358 string "Built-in kernel command string" 2359 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL 2360 default "" 2361 help 2362 Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel 2363 image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a 2364 command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to 2365 form the full kernel command line, when the system boots. 2366 2367 However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to 2368 change this behavior. 2369 2370 In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided 2371 by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root 2372 file system. 2373 2374 config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE 2375 bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" 2376 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != "" 2377 help 2378 Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader 2379 command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. 2380 2381 This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should 2382 be set to 'N' under normal conditions. 2383 2384 config MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL 2385 bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT 2386 default y 2387 help 2388 Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86 2389 Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system 2390 call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as 2391 DOSEMU or some Wine programs. It is also used by some very old 2392 threading libraries. 2393 2394 Enabling this feature adds a small amount of overhead to 2395 context switches and increases the low-level kernel attack 2396 surface. Disabling it removes the modify_ldt(2) system call. 2397 2398 Saying 'N' here may make sense for embedded or server kernels. 2399 2400 config STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE 2401 bool "Enforce strict size checking for sigaltstack" 2402 depends on DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME 2403 help 2404 For historical reasons MINSIGSTKSZ is a constant which became 2405 already too small with AVX512 support. Add a mechanism to 2406 enforce strict checking of the sigaltstack size against the 2407 real size of the FPU frame. This option enables the check 2408 by default. It can also be controlled via the kernel command 2409 line option 'strict_sas_size' independent of this config 2410 switch. Enabling it might break existing applications which 2411 allocate a too small sigaltstack but 'work' because they 2412 never get a signal delivered. 2413 2414 Say 'N' unless you want to really enforce this check. 2415 2416 config CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT 2417 bool "Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time" 2418 depends on FINEIBT 2419 default y 2420 help 2421 Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time. If enabled, 2422 this is the same as booting with "cfi=auto". If disabled, 2423 this is the same as booting with "cfi=kcfi". 2424 2425 source "kernel/livepatch/Kconfig" 2426 2427 endmenu 2428 2429 config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS 2430 def_bool $(success,echo 'int __seg_fs fs; int __seg_gs gs;' | $(CC) -x c - -S -o /dev/null) 2431 depends on CC_IS_GCC 2432 2433 config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS 2434 def_bool CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 130300 2435 2436 config USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT 2437 def_bool y 2438 depends on CC_HAS_NAMED_AS 2439 # 2440 # -fsanitize=kernel-address (KASAN) and -fsanitize=thread 2441 # (KCSAN) are incompatible with named address spaces with 2442 # GCC < 13.3 - see GCC PR sanitizer/111736. 2443 # 2444 depends on !(KASAN || KCSAN) || CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS 2445 2446 config CC_HAS_SLS 2447 def_bool $(cc-option,-mharden-sls=all) 2448 2449 config CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK 2450 def_bool $(cc-option,-mfunction-return=thunk-extern) 2451 2452 config CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING 2453 def_bool $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=16,16) 2454 2455 config FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI 2456 int 2457 default 59 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 2458 default 27 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 2459 default 11 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 2460 default 3 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B 2461 default 0 2462 2463 # Basically: FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT - 5*CFI_CLANG 2464 # except Kconfig can't do arithmetic :/ 2465 config FUNCTION_PADDING_BYTES 2466 int 2467 default FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI if CFI_CLANG 2468 default FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 2469 2470 config CALL_PADDING 2471 def_bool n 2472 depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && OBJTOOL 2473 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B 2474 2475 config FINEIBT 2476 def_bool y 2477 depends on X86_KERNEL_IBT && CFI_CLANG && MITIGATION_RETPOLINE 2478 select CALL_PADDING 2479 2480 config HAVE_CALL_THUNKS 2481 def_bool y 2482 depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && OBJTOOL 2483 2484 config CALL_THUNKS 2485 def_bool n 2486 select CALL_PADDING 2487 2488 config PREFIX_SYMBOLS 2489 def_bool y 2490 depends on CALL_PADDING && !CFI_CLANG 2491 2492 menuconfig CPU_MITIGATIONS 2493 bool "Mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities" 2494 default y 2495 help 2496 Say Y here to enable options which enable mitigations for hardware 2497 vulnerabilities (usually related to speculative execution). 2498 Mitigations can be disabled or restricted to SMT systems at runtime 2499 via the "mitigations" kernel parameter. 2500 2501 If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. This CANNOT be 2502 overridden at runtime. 2503 2504 Say 'Y', unless you really know what you are doing. 2505 2506 if CPU_MITIGATIONS 2507 2508 config MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION 2509 bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode" 2510 default y 2511 depends on (X86_64 || X86_PAE) 2512 help 2513 This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by 2514 ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped 2515 into userspace. 2516 2517 See Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst for more details. 2518 2519 config MITIGATION_RETPOLINE 2520 bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel" 2521 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2522 default y 2523 help 2524 Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against 2525 kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect 2526 branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern 2527 support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. 2528 2529 config MITIGATION_RETHUNK 2530 bool "Enable return-thunks" 2531 depends on MITIGATION_RETPOLINE && CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK 2532 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2533 default y if X86_64 2534 help 2535 Compile the kernel with the return-thunks compiler option to guard 2536 against kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding return speculation. 2537 Requires a compiler with -mfunction-return=thunk-extern 2538 support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. 2539 2540 config MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY 2541 bool "Enable UNRET on kernel entry" 2542 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && X86_64 2543 default y 2544 help 2545 Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=unret mitigation. 2546 2547 config MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING 2548 bool "Mitigate RSB underflow with call depth tracking" 2549 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && HAVE_CALL_THUNKS 2550 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 2551 select CALL_THUNKS 2552 default y 2553 help 2554 Compile the kernel with call depth tracking to mitigate the Intel 2555 SKL Return-Speculation-Buffer (RSB) underflow issue. The 2556 mitigation is off by default and needs to be enabled on the 2557 kernel command line via the retbleed=stuff option. For 2558 non-affected systems the overhead of this option is marginal as 2559 the call depth tracking is using run-time generated call thunks 2560 in a compiler generated padding area and call patching. This 2561 increases text size by ~5%. For non affected systems this space 2562 is unused. On affected SKL systems this results in a significant 2563 performance gain over the IBRS mitigation. 2564 2565 config CALL_THUNKS_DEBUG 2566 bool "Enable call thunks and call depth tracking debugging" 2567 depends on MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING 2568 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B 2569 default n 2570 help 2571 Enable call/ret counters for imbalance detection and build in 2572 a noisy dmesg about callthunks generation and call patching for 2573 trouble shooting. The debug prints need to be enabled on the 2574 kernel command line with 'debug-callthunks'. 2575 Only enable this when you are debugging call thunks as this 2576 creates a noticeable runtime overhead. If unsure say N. 2577 2578 config MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY 2579 bool "Enable IBPB on kernel entry" 2580 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64 2581 default y 2582 help 2583 Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=ibpb mitigation. 2584 2585 config MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY 2586 bool "Enable IBRS on kernel entry" 2587 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 2588 default y 2589 help 2590 Compile the kernel with support for the spectre_v2=ibrs mitigation. 2591 This mitigates both spectre_v2 and retbleed at great cost to 2592 performance. 2593 2594 config MITIGATION_SRSO 2595 bool "Mitigate speculative RAS overflow on AMD" 2596 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64 && MITIGATION_RETHUNK 2597 default y 2598 help 2599 Enable the SRSO mitigation needed on AMD Zen1-4 machines. 2600 2601 config MITIGATION_SLS 2602 bool "Mitigate Straight-Line-Speculation" 2603 depends on CC_HAS_SLS && X86_64 2604 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL 2605 default n 2606 help 2607 Compile the kernel with straight-line-speculation options to guard 2608 against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly 2609 larger. 2610 2611 config MITIGATION_GDS 2612 bool "Mitigate Gather Data Sampling" 2613 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2614 default y 2615 help 2616 Enable mitigation for Gather Data Sampling (GDS). GDS is a hardware 2617 vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data 2618 which was previously stored in vector registers. The attacker uses gather 2619 instructions to infer the stale vector register data. 2620 2621 config MITIGATION_RFDS 2622 bool "RFDS Mitigation" 2623 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2624 default y 2625 help 2626 Enable mitigation for Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) by default. 2627 RFDS is a hardware vulnerability which affects Intel Atom CPUs. It 2628 allows unprivileged speculative access to stale data previously 2629 stored in floating point, vector and integer registers. 2630 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst> 2631 2632 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI 2633 bool "Mitigate Spectre-BHB (Branch History Injection)" 2634 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2635 default y 2636 help 2637 Enable BHI mitigations. BHI attacks are a form of Spectre V2 attacks 2638 where the branch history buffer is poisoned to speculatively steer 2639 indirect branches. 2640 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst> 2641 2642 config MITIGATION_MDS 2643 bool "Mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware bug" 2644 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2645 default y 2646 help 2647 Enable mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is 2648 a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access 2649 to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers. 2650 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst> 2651 2652 config MITIGATION_TAA 2653 bool "Mitigate TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) hardware bug" 2654 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2655 default y 2656 help 2657 Enable mitigation for TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA). TAA is a hardware 2658 vulnerability that allows unprivileged speculative access to data 2659 which is available in various CPU internal buffers by using 2660 asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX transactional region. 2661 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst> 2662 2663 config MITIGATION_MMIO_STALE_DATA 2664 bool "Mitigate MMIO Stale Data hardware bug" 2665 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2666 default y 2667 help 2668 Enable mitigation for MMIO Stale Data hardware bugs. Processor MMIO 2669 Stale Data Vulnerabilities are a class of memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) 2670 vulnerabilities that can expose data. The vulnerabilities require the 2671 attacker to have access to MMIO. 2672 See also 2673 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst> 2674 2675 config MITIGATION_L1TF 2676 bool "Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug" 2677 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2678 default y 2679 help 2680 Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug. L1 Terminal Fault is a 2681 hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data 2682 available in the Level 1 Data Cache. 2683 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2684 2685 config MITIGATION_RETBLEED 2686 bool "Mitigate RETBleed hardware bug" 2687 depends on (CPU_SUP_INTEL && MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) || MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY || MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY 2688 default y 2689 help 2690 Enable mitigation for RETBleed (Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution 2691 with Return Instructions) vulnerability. RETBleed is a speculative 2692 execution attack which takes advantage of microarchitectural behavior 2693 in many modern microprocessors, similar to Spectre v2. An 2694 unprivileged attacker can use these flaws to bypass conventional 2695 memory security restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory 2696 that would otherwise be inaccessible. 2697 2698 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V1 2699 bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V1 hardware bug" 2700 default y 2701 help 2702 Enable mitigation for Spectre V1 (Bounds Check Bypass). Spectre V1 is a 2703 class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of speculative 2704 execution that bypasses conditional branch instructions used for 2705 memory access bounds check. 2706 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst> 2707 2708 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 2709 bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V2 hardware bug" 2710 default y 2711 help 2712 Enable mitigation for Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection). Spectre 2713 V2 is a class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of 2714 indirect branch predictors inside the processor. In Spectre variant 2 2715 attacks, the attacker can steer speculative indirect branches in the 2716 victim to gadget code by poisoning the branch target buffer of a CPU 2717 used for predicting indirect branch addresses. 2718 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst> 2719 2720 config MITIGATION_SRBDS 2721 bool "Mitigate Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) hardware bug" 2722 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL 2723 default y 2724 help 2725 Enable mitigation for Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS). 2726 SRBDS is a hardware vulnerability that allows Microarchitectural Data 2727 Sampling (MDS) techniques to infer values returned from special 2728 register accesses. An unprivileged user can extract values returned 2729 from RDRAND and RDSEED executed on another core or sibling thread 2730 using MDS techniques. 2731 See also 2732 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst> 2733 2734 config MITIGATION_SSB 2735 bool "Mitigate Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) hardware bug" 2736 default y 2737 help 2738 Enable mitigation for Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). SSB is a 2739 hardware security vulnerability and its exploitation takes advantage 2740 of speculative execution in a similar way to the Meltdown and Spectre 2741 security vulnerabilities. 2742 2743 endif 2744 2745 config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES 2746 def_bool y 2747 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2748 2749 menu "Power management and ACPI options" 2750 2751 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER 2752 def_bool y 2753 depends on HIBERNATION 2754 2755 source "kernel/power/Kconfig" 2756 2757 source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" 2758 2759 config X86_APM_BOOT 2760 def_bool y 2761 depends on APM 2762 2763 menuconfig APM 2764 tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support" 2765 depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP 2766 help 2767 APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different 2768 techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with 2769 APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be 2770 reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide 2771 battery status information, and user-space programs will receive 2772 notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change). 2773 2774 If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM 2775 BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time. 2776 2777 Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for 2778 machines with more than one CPU. 2779 2780 In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location 2781 and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.rst> 2782 and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from 2783 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 2784 2785 This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8) 2786 manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off 2787 VESA-compliant "green" monitors. 2788 2789 This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER 2790 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green" 2791 desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver 2792 may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase. 2793 2794 Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't 2795 much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get 2796 random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to 2797 anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling 2798 APM in your BIOS). 2799 2800 Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random, 2801 "weird" problems: 2802 2803 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is 2804 enabled. 2805 2) pass the "idle=poll" option to the kernel 2806 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass 2807 the "no387" option to the kernel 2808 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel 2809 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling 2810 all but the first 4 MB of RAM) 2811 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked. 2812 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/> 2813 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings 2814 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM 2815 10) install a better fan for the CPU 2816 11) exchange RAM chips 2817 12) exchange the motherboard. 2818 2819 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 2820 module will be called apm. 2821 2822 if APM 2823 2824 config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND 2825 bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" 2826 help 2827 This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a 2828 compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M 2829 series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. 2830 2831 config APM_DO_ENABLE 2832 bool "Enable PM at boot time" 2833 help 2834 Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS 2835 specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically 2836 power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend 2837 State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls." 2838 This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this 2839 feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This 2840 should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features 2841 will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn 2842 this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM 2843 support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn 2844 this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba 2845 T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without 2846 this feature. 2847 2848 config APM_CPU_IDLE 2849 depends on CPU_IDLE 2850 bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" 2851 help 2852 Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. 2853 On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as 2854 a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls 2855 are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g., 2856 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or 2857 whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU, 2858 this option does nothing.) 2859 2860 config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK 2861 bool "Enable console blanking using APM" 2862 help 2863 Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to 2864 turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux 2865 virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by 2866 the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight 2867 when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to 2868 do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this 2869 option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your 2870 backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console, 2871 especially if you are using gpm. 2872 2873 config APM_ALLOW_INTS 2874 bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" 2875 help 2876 Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to 2877 the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving 2878 BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it 2879 needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in 2880 many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you 2881 suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N. 2882 2883 endif # APM 2884 2885 source "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig" 2886 2887 source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig" 2888 2889 source "drivers/idle/Kconfig" 2890 2891 endmenu 2892 2893 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)" 2894 2895 choice 2896 prompt "PCI access mode" 2897 depends on X86_32 && PCI 2898 default PCI_GOANY 2899 help 2900 On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and 2901 determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards 2902 have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded 2903 PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to 2904 detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS. 2905 2906 With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the 2907 PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used, 2908 if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you 2909 choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used. 2910 If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the 2911 direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't 2912 work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any". 2913 2914 config PCI_GOBIOS 2915 bool "BIOS" 2916 2917 config PCI_GOMMCONFIG 2918 bool "MMConfig" 2919 2920 config PCI_GODIRECT 2921 bool "Direct" 2922 2923 config PCI_GOOLPC 2924 bool "OLPC XO-1" 2925 depends on OLPC 2926 2927 config PCI_GOANY 2928 bool "Any" 2929 2930 endchoice 2931 2932 config PCI_BIOS 2933 def_bool y 2934 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY) 2935 2936 # x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct. 2937 config PCI_DIRECT 2938 def_bool y 2939 depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)) 2940 2941 config PCI_MMCONFIG 2942 bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" if X86_64 2943 default y 2944 depends on PCI && (ACPI || JAILHOUSE_GUEST) 2945 depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOMMCONFIG) 2946 2947 config PCI_OLPC 2948 def_bool y 2949 depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY) 2950 2951 config PCI_XEN 2952 def_bool y 2953 depends on PCI && XEN 2954 2955 config MMCONF_FAM10H 2956 def_bool y 2957 depends on X86_64 && PCI_MMCONFIG && ACPI 2958 2959 config PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK 2960 bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT 2961 depends on PCI 2962 help 2963 Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows 2964 PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do 2965 not have ACPI. 2966 2967 There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality 2968 is known to be incomplete. 2969 2970 You should say N unless you know you need this. 2971 2972 config ISA_BUS 2973 bool "ISA bus support on modern systems" if EXPERT 2974 help 2975 Expose ISA bus device drivers and options available for selection and 2976 configuration. Enable this option if your target machine has an ISA 2977 bus. ISA is an older system, displaced by PCI and newer bus 2978 architectures -- if your target machine is modern, it probably does 2979 not have an ISA bus. 2980 2981 If unsure, say N. 2982 2983 # x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA. 2984 config ISA_DMA_API 2985 bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT) 2986 default y 2987 help 2988 Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers. 2989 If unsure, say Y. 2990 2991 if X86_32 2992 2993 config ISA 2994 bool "ISA support" 2995 help 2996 Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the 2997 name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff 2998 inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel 2999 (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI; 3000 newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N. 3001 3002 config SCx200 3003 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" 3004 help 3005 This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's 3006 (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the 3007 PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency 3008 for other scx200_* drivers. 3009 3010 If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200. 3011 3012 config SCx200HR_TIMER 3013 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" 3014 depends on SCx200 3015 default y 3016 help 3017 This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 3018 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for 3019 NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the 3020 processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The 3021 other workaround is idle=poll boot option. 3022 3023 config OLPC 3024 bool "One Laptop Per Child support" 3025 depends on !X86_PAE 3026 select GPIOLIB 3027 select OF 3028 select OF_PROMTREE 3029 select IRQ_DOMAIN 3030 select OLPC_EC 3031 help 3032 Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC 3033 XO hardware. 3034 3035 config OLPC_XO1_PM 3036 bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management" 3037 depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP 3038 help 3039 Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop. 3040 3041 config OLPC_XO1_RTC 3042 bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock" 3043 depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS 3044 help 3045 Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a 3046 programmable wakeup source. 3047 3048 config OLPC_XO1_SCI 3049 bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras" 3050 depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y 3051 depends on INPUT=y 3052 select POWER_SUPPLY 3053 help 3054 Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop: 3055 - EC-driven system wakeups 3056 - Power button 3057 - Ebook switch 3058 - Lid switch 3059 - AC adapter status updates 3060 - Battery status updates 3061 3062 config OLPC_XO15_SCI 3063 bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras" 3064 depends on OLPC && ACPI 3065 select POWER_SUPPLY 3066 help 3067 Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop: 3068 - EC-driven system wakeups 3069 - AC adapter status updates 3070 - Battery status updates 3071 3072 config GEODE_COMMON 3073 bool 3074 3075 config ALIX 3076 bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)" 3077 select GPIOLIB 3078 select GEODE_COMMON 3079 help 3080 This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX. 3081 At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on 3082 ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should 3083 get added here. 3084 3085 Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support 3086 (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs 3087 3088 Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS. 3089 3090 config NET5501 3091 bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 3092 select GPIOLIB 3093 select GEODE_COMMON 3094 help 3095 This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501. 3096 3097 config GEOS 3098 bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)" 3099 select GPIOLIB 3100 select GEODE_COMMON 3101 depends on DMI 3102 help 3103 This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS. 3104 3105 config TS5500 3106 bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support" 3107 depends on MELAN 3108 select CHECK_SIGNATURE 3109 select NEW_LEDS 3110 select LEDS_CLASS 3111 help 3112 This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500. 3113 3114 endif # X86_32 3115 3116 config AMD_NB 3117 def_bool y 3118 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI 3119 3120 endmenu 3121 3122 menu "Binary Emulations" 3123 3124 config IA32_EMULATION 3125 bool "IA32 Emulation" 3126 depends on X86_64 3127 select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC 3128 select BINFMT_ELF 3129 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION 3130 help 3131 Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 3132 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 3133 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. 3134 3135 config IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED 3136 bool "IA32 emulation disabled by default" 3137 default n 3138 depends on IA32_EMULATION 3139 help 3140 Make IA32 emulation disabled by default. This prevents loading 32-bit 3141 processes and access to 32-bit syscalls. If unsure, leave it to its 3142 default value. 3143 3144 config X86_X32_ABI 3145 bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" 3146 depends on X86_64 3147 # llvm-objcopy does not convert x86_64 .note.gnu.property or 3148 # compressed debug sections to x86_x32 properly: 3149 # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/514 3150 # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1141 3151 depends on $(success,$(OBJCOPY) --version | head -n1 | grep -qv llvm) 3152 help 3153 Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI 3154 for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the 3155 full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving 3156 pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint. 3157 3158 config COMPAT_32 3159 def_bool y 3160 depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_32 3161 select HAVE_UID16 3162 select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 3163 3164 config COMPAT 3165 def_bool y 3166 depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32_ABI 3167 3168 config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT 3169 def_bool y 3170 depends on COMPAT 3171 3172 endmenu 3173 3174 config HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP 3175 def_bool y 3176 depends on X86_32 3177 3178 source "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig" 3179 3180 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler"
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