2 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3 # see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
5 # Note: ISA is disabled and will hopefully never be enabled.
6 # If you managed to buy an ISA x86-64 box you'll have to fix all the
7 # ISA drivers you need yourself.
10 mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration"
16 Port to the x86-64 architecture. x86-64 is a 64-bit extension to the
17 classical 32-bit x86 architecture. For details see
18 <http://www.x86-64.org/>.
31 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
35 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
39 config SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS
53 config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
57 config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
60 config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
64 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
76 config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
84 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
99 menu "Processor type and features"
102 prompt "Subarchitecture Type"
108 Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible.
111 bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP"
113 Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
114 supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option
115 if you have one of these machines.
120 prompt "Processor family"
124 bool "AMD-Opteron/Athlon64"
126 Optimize for AMD Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 CPUs.
131 Optimize for Intel Pentium 4 and Xeon CPUs with Intel
132 Extended Memory 64 Technology(EM64T). For details see
133 <http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/>.
136 bool "Generic-x86-64"
143 # Define implied options from the CPU selection here
145 config X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES
147 default "128" if GENERIC_CPU || MPSC
150 config X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
152 default "7" if GENERIC_CPU || MPSC
155 config X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES
157 default "4096" if X86_VSMP
158 default X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES if !X86_VSMP
169 tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel CPU microcode support"
171 If you say Y here the 'File systems' section, you will be
172 able to update the microcode on Intel processors. You will
173 obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself which is
174 not shipped with the Linux kernel.
176 For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
177 ingredients for this driver, check:
178 <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
180 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
181 module will be called microcode.
182 If you use modprobe or kmod you may also want to add the line
183 'alias char-major-10-184 microcode' to your /etc/modules.conf file.
186 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
188 This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
189 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with
190 major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
191 MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor
195 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
197 This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
198 be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device
199 with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
204 depends on SMP && !MK8
207 config MATH_EMULATION
220 config X86_LOCAL_APIC
225 bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support"
227 On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
228 the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
229 processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
230 a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining
231 allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer
232 before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance
233 of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a
234 /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's
235 MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this.
237 This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar
238 control registers on other processors can be easily supported
241 Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only
242 set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This
243 can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here.
245 Just say Y here, all x86-64 machines support MTRRs.
247 See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information.
250 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
252 This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
253 a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
254 you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
256 If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor
257 machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
258 you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
259 singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
260 will run faster if you say N here.
262 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
265 bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support"
269 SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making
270 when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a
271 cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say
275 bool "Multi-core scheduler support"
279 Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
280 making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
281 increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
283 source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
286 bool "Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Support"
289 Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. The kernel
290 will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the local memory
291 controller of the CPU and add some more NUMA awareness to the kernel.
292 This code is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems.
293 If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is EM64T
297 bool "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
301 Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
302 you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old
303 method to read the NUMA configurtion directly from the builtin
304 Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
305 instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
310 depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
312 # Dummy CONFIG option to select ACPI_NUMA from drivers/acpi/Kconfig.
314 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
315 bool "ACPI NUMA detection"
322 Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
325 bool "NUMA emulation"
328 Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split
329 into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the
330 number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging.
332 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
338 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
342 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
346 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
348 depends on (NUMA || EXPERIMENTAL)
350 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
352 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
354 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
360 config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
364 config OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE
366 depends on DISCONTIGMEM
369 int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-256)"
374 This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
375 kernel will support. Current maximum is 256 CPUs due to
376 APIC addressing limits. Less depending on the hardware.
378 This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU requires
379 memory in the static kernel configuration.
382 bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
383 depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL
385 Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on. CPUs
386 can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#.
387 Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
389 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
396 Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
397 time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
398 present. The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
399 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
400 as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at
401 <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec.htm>.
403 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
404 bool "Provide RTC interrupt"
405 depends on HPET_TIMER && RTC=y
407 # Mark as embedded because too many people got it wrong.
408 # The code disables itself when not needed.
410 bool "IOMMU support" if EMBEDDED
416 Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only
417 on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB,
418 sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
419 Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART
420 based IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used on Intel
421 systems and as fallback.
422 The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited
423 device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified
427 bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support"
430 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
432 Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460
433 systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory
434 properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC
435 (Double Address Cycle). Calgary also supports bus level
436 isolation, where all DMAs pass through the IOMMU. This
437 prevents them from going anywhere except their intended
438 destination. This catches hard-to-find kernel bugs and
439 mis-behaving drivers and devices that do not use the DMA-API
440 properly to set up their DMA buffers. The IOMMU can be
441 turned off at boot time with the iommu=off parameter.
442 Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
445 # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround
450 bool "Machine check support" if EMBEDDED
453 Include a machine check error handler to report hardware errors.
454 This version will require the mcelog utility to decode some
455 machine check error logs. See
456 ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/tools/mcelog
459 bool "Intel MCE features"
460 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
463 Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
467 bool "AMD MCE features"
468 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
471 Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
472 the DRAM Error Threshold.
475 bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
476 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
478 kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
479 current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
480 but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
481 you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
483 The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call.
485 It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine
486 is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not
487 initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging
488 support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
489 strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
492 bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
493 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
495 Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
497 config PHYSICAL_START
498 hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
499 default "0x1000000" if CRASH_DUMP
502 This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. Normally
503 for regular kernels this value is 0x200000 (2MB). But in the case
504 of kexec on panic the fail safe kernel needs to run at a different
505 address than the panic-ed kernel. This option is used to set the load
506 address for kernels used to capture crash dump on being kexec'ed
507 after panic. The default value for crash dump kernels is
508 0x1000000 (16MB). This can also be set based on the "X" value as
509 specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter
510 passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as
511 crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at
512 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps.
514 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
517 bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
521 This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
522 that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
523 execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
524 the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
525 syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
526 their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
527 enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled
528 and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
529 defined by each seccomp mode.
531 If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
533 source kernel/Kconfig.hz
536 bool "Function reordering"
539 This option enables the toolchain to reorder functions for a more
540 optimal TLB usage. If you have pretty much any version of binutils,
541 this can increase your kernel build time by roughly one minute.
545 depends on AGP_AMD64 || IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA)
550 # Use the generic interrupt handling code in kernel/irq/:
552 config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
556 config GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
560 # we have no ISA slots, but we do have ISA-style DMA.
565 config GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ
567 depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS && SMP
570 menu "Power management options"
572 source kernel/power/Kconfig
574 source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
576 source "arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig"
580 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)"
585 # x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct.
592 bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access"
593 depends on PCI && ACPI
595 source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
597 source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
599 source "drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig"
601 source "drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig"
606 menu "Executable file formats / Emulations"
608 source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
610 config IA32_EMULATION
611 bool "IA32 Emulation"
613 Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should likely
614 turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs
618 tristate "IA32 a.out support"
619 depends on IA32_EMULATION
621 Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
625 depends on IA32_EMULATION
628 config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
630 depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
637 source drivers/Kconfig
639 source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
643 menu "Instrumentation Support"
644 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
646 source "arch/x86_64/oprofile/Kconfig"
649 bool "Kprobes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
650 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES
652 Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
653 execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
654 a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
655 for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
656 If in doubt, say "N".
659 source "arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug"
661 source "security/Kconfig"
663 source "crypto/Kconfig"