1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
4 bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(ARCH)" = "x86"
5 default "$(ARCH)" != "i386"
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
13 # Options that are inherently 32-bit kernel only:
14 select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
16 select CLONE_BACKWARDS
17 select GENERIC_VDSO_32
18 select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
20 select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
22 select ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64
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
36 select ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT
38 select EXECMEM if DYNAMIC_FTRACE
40 config FORCE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
43 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
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.
54 # ( Note that options that are marked 'if X86_64' could in principle be
55 # ported to 32-bit as well. )
60 # Note: keep this list sorted alphabetically
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_EXECMEM_ROX if X86_64
87 select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
88 select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
89 select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
90 select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64
91 select ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT
92 select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
93 select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
94 select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
95 select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
96 select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64
97 select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
98 select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP if X86_64
99 select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
100 select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG
101 select ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG if PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2
102 select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64
103 select ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC if X86_64
104 select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
105 select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
106 select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
107 select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
108 select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
109 select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
110 select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
111 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
112 select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET if EXPERT
113 select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
114 select ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
115 select ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
116 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI
117 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
118 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
119 select ARCH_STACKWALK
120 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI
121 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
122 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
123 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK if X86_64
124 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64
125 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if NR_CPUS <= 4096
126 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG if X86_64
127 select ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS if X86_64 && CFI_CLANG
128 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
129 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
130 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
131 select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
132 select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if X86_CMPXCHG64
133 select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
134 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
135 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
136 select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS
137 select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
138 select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT if X86_64
139 select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
140 select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
141 select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
142 select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
143 select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
144 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP if X86_64
145 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if X86_64
146 select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64
147 select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH
148 select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
150 select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
151 # Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0
152 # in strings and cause false KMSAN reports.
153 select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !KMSAN
154 select DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
155 select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB
157 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
158 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST_IDLE if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
159 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
160 select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
161 select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
162 select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
163 select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
164 select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
167 select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP
168 select GENERIC_IRQ_MATRIX_ALLOCATOR if X86_LOCAL_APIC
169 select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION if SMP
170 select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
171 select GENERIC_IRQ_RESERVATION_MODE
172 select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
173 select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP
174 select GENERIC_PTDUMP
175 select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
176 select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
177 select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
178 select GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
179 select GENERIC_VDSO_OVERFLOW_PROTECT
180 select GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH if X86_PAE
181 select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
182 select HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP if X86_64
184 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI
185 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI
186 select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
187 select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
188 select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE
189 select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC if X86_64
190 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
191 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
192 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64
193 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if X86_64
194 select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE
195 select HAVE_ARCH_KMSAN if X86_64
196 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
197 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
198 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT
199 select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT
200 select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
201 select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
202 select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
203 select HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
204 select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
205 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
206 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64
207 select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD
208 select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD
209 select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64
210 select HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET
211 select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
212 select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
213 select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
214 select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
215 select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER if X86_64
216 select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK if HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
217 select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
218 select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL
219 select HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
220 select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
221 select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
222 select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
223 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
224 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
225 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS if X86_64
226 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
227 select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT if X86_64
228 select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI if X86_64
230 select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
232 select HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
234 select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 || DYNAMIC_FTRACE
235 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
236 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
237 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if X86_32 || (X86_64 && DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
238 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
239 select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
240 select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
241 select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
242 select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64
243 select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
244 select HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL
245 select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
246 select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
247 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
248 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
249 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
250 select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
251 select HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
253 select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
254 select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
255 select HAVE_KRETPROBES
257 select HAVE_LIVEPATCH if X86_64
258 select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
259 select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
262 select HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL
264 select HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL
265 select HAVE_OBJTOOL if X86_64
266 select HAVE_OPTPROBES
267 select HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB
268 select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
269 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
270 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
271 select HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
273 select HAVE_PERF_REGS
274 select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
275 select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if PARAVIRT
276 select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
277 select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
278 select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
279 select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if UNWINDER_ORC || STACK_VALIDATION
280 select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
281 select HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
282 select HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK
283 select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR if CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR
284 select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL
285 select HAVE_STATIC_CALL
286 select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE if HAVE_OBJTOOL
287 select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL
289 select HAVE_RUST if X86_64
290 select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
291 select HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL
292 select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
293 select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
294 select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
295 select VDSO_GETRANDOM if X86_64
296 select HOTPLUG_PARALLEL if SMP && X86_64
297 select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP
298 select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP if SMP && X86_32
299 select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
300 select LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA
301 select NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
302 select NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK
303 select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
304 select NUMA_MEMBLKS if NUMA
305 select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI
306 select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG if PCI
309 select RTC_MC146818_LIB
311 select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
312 select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
313 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
314 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT
315 select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
316 select HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN if X86_64
317 select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS
318 select HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP if X86_SGX
319 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B if X86_64 || X86_ALIGNMENT_16
320 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B
321 imply IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI
322 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
324 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
326 depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES
330 default "elf32-i386" if X86_32
331 default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64
333 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
336 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
342 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
346 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
350 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
353 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
359 config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
361 depends on ISA_DMA_API
365 default y if KMSAN || KASAN
370 select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64
372 config GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
375 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
377 depends on ISA_DMA_API
379 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
382 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX
385 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
388 config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
394 config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
397 default 0xdffffc0000000000
399 config HAVE_INTEL_TXT
401 depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI
405 depends on X86_64 && SMP
407 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
410 config FIX_EARLYCON_MEM
413 config DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
416 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
418 default 5 if X86_5LEVEL
423 config CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR
425 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS)) if 64BIT
426 default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS))
428 We have to make sure stack protector is unconditionally disabled if
429 the compiler produces broken code or if it does not let us control
430 the segment on 32-bit kernels.
432 menu "Processor type and features"
435 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
437 This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
438 a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
441 If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor
442 machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
443 you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
444 uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel
445 will run faster if you say N here.
447 Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
448 "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
449 architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
450 architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
452 People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
453 Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
454 Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
456 See also <file:Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst>,
457 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
458 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
460 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
463 bool "Support x2apic"
464 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
466 This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
468 This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
469 and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio.
471 Some Intel systems circa 2022 and later are locked into x2APIC mode
472 and can not fall back to the legacy APIC modes if SGX or TDX are
473 enabled in the BIOS. They will boot with very reduced functionality
474 without enabling this option.
476 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
478 config X86_POSTED_MSI
479 bool "Enable MSI and MSI-x delivery by posted interrupts"
480 depends on X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP
482 This enables MSIs that are under interrupt remapping to be delivered as
483 posted interrupts to the host kernel. Interrupt throughput can
484 potentially be improved by coalescing CPU notifications during high
487 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
490 bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
492 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
494 For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems
495 (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it
497 config X86_CPU_RESCTRL
498 bool "x86 CPU resource control support"
499 depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
501 select PROC_CPU_RESCTRL if PROC_FS
503 Enable x86 CPU resource control support.
505 Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources
508 Intel calls this Intel Resource Director Technology
509 (Intel(R) RDT). More information about RDT can be found in the
510 Intel x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual.
512 AMD calls this AMD Platform Quality of Service (AMD QoS).
513 More information about AMD QoS can be found in the AMD64 Technology
514 Platform Quality of Service Extensions manual.
519 bool "Flexible Return and Event Delivery"
522 When enabled, try to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery
523 instead of the legacy SYSCALL/SYSENTER/IDT architecture for
524 ring transitions and exception/interrupt handling if the
528 bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
529 depends on SMP && X86_32
531 This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs.
533 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
534 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
537 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
538 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
541 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
542 for the following non-PC x86 platforms, depending on the value of
545 32-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=n):
546 Goldfish (Android emulator)
549 SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)
550 STA2X11-based (e.g. Northville)
551 Moorestown MID devices
553 64-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=y):
558 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
559 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
561 # This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms
562 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
564 bool "Numascale NumaChip"
566 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
569 depends on X86_X2APIC
570 depends on PCI_MMCONFIG
572 Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to
573 enable more than ~168 cores.
574 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
578 select HYPERVISOR_GUEST
580 depends on X86_64 && PCI
581 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
584 Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
585 supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option
586 if you have one of these machines.
589 bool "SGI Ultraviolet"
591 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
594 depends on KEXEC_CORE
595 depends on X86_X2APIC
598 This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems.
599 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
601 # Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms
602 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
605 bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)"
606 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
608 Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily
609 for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android
610 Goldfish emulator say N here.
613 bool "CE4100 TV platform"
615 depends on PCI_GODIRECT
616 depends on X86_IO_APIC
618 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
619 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
621 select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
623 Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC.
624 This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop
625 boxes and media devices.
628 bool "Intel MID platform support"
629 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
630 depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
632 depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY && X86_32)
633 depends on X86_IO_APIC
638 Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile
639 Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy
640 interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here.
642 Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which
643 consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives.
645 config X86_INTEL_QUARK
646 bool "Intel Quark platform support"
648 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
649 depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
653 depends on X86_IO_APIC
658 Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC.
659 Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino
660 compatible Intel Galileo.
662 config X86_INTEL_LPSS
663 bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support"
664 depends on X86 && ACPI && PCI
669 Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as
670 found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables
671 things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol
672 which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers.
674 config X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE
675 bool "AMD ACPI2Platform devices support"
680 Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device
681 such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets.
682 I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is
683 implemented under PINCTRL subsystem.
686 tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms"
689 This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC
690 platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of
691 MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal
692 and power. Drivers may query the availability of this device to
693 determine if they need the sideband in order to work on these
694 platforms. The sideband is available on the following SoC products.
695 This list is not meant to be exclusive.
700 You should say Y if you are running a kernel on one of these SoC's.
702 config IOSF_MBI_DEBUG
703 bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs"
704 depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS
706 Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR,
707 MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from
708 different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device
709 state information for debug and analysis. As this is a general access
710 mechanism, users of this option would have specific knowledge of the
711 device they want to access.
713 If you don't require the option or are in doubt, say N.
716 bool "RDC R-321x SoC"
718 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
720 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
722 This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known
724 If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here.
726 config X86_32_NON_STANDARD
727 bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures"
728 depends on X86_32 && SMP
729 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
731 This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default
732 subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary
733 kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by
734 one and will fallback to default.
736 # Alphabetically sorted list of Non standard 32 bit platforms
738 config X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
740 # MCE code calls memory_failure():
742 # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags:
743 # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH:
744 depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM
745 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
748 bool "STA2X11 Companion Chip Support"
749 depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && PCI
754 This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub,
755 a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard
756 PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this
757 option is selected the kernel will still be able to boot on
758 standard PC machines.
761 tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module"
764 The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support
765 to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is
766 needed to do so, which is what this module does at
769 This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille.
773 config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
775 prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output"
778 Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
779 is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
780 caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
781 at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead.
783 If in doubt, say "Y".
785 menuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST
786 bool "Linux guest support"
788 Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper-
789 visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform
792 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
793 disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in.
798 bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
799 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
801 This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
802 under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
803 over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor
804 the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger.
809 config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
810 bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
811 depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
813 Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if
814 a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
816 config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
817 bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
818 depends on PARAVIRT && SMP
820 Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
821 spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
822 (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning).
824 It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance
825 benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels.
827 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y.
829 config X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
832 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
835 bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)"
837 select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
838 select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
839 select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
842 This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
843 hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead
844 of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the
845 underlying device model, the host provides the guest with
846 timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time
848 config ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
850 prompt "Disable host haltpoll when loading haltpoll driver"
852 If virtualized under KVM, disable host haltpoll.
855 bool "Support for running PVH guests"
857 This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines
858 as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
860 config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
861 bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting"
864 Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time
865 accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with
866 the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for
867 that, there can be a small performance impact.
869 If in doubt, say N here.
871 config PARAVIRT_CLOCK
874 config JAILHOUSE_GUEST
875 bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support"
876 depends on X86_64 && PCI
879 This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root
880 cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start
881 Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell.
884 bool "ACRN Guest support"
886 select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
888 This option allows to run Linux as guest in the ACRN hypervisor. ACRN is
889 a flexible, lightweight reference open-source hypervisor, built with
890 real-time and safety-criticality in mind. It is built for embedded
891 IOT with small footprint and real-time features. More details can be
892 found in https://projectacrn.org/.
894 config INTEL_TDX_GUEST
895 bool "Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) - Guest Support"
896 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL
897 depends on X86_X2APIC
899 select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
900 select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
902 select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
904 Support running as a guest under Intel TDX. Without this support,
905 the guest kernel can not boot or run under TDX.
906 TDX includes memory encryption and integrity capabilities
907 which protect the confidentiality and integrity of guest
908 memory contents and CPU state. TDX guests are protected from
909 some attacks from the VMM.
911 endif # HYPERVISOR_GUEST
913 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu"
917 prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
919 Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
920 time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
922 HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
923 The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
924 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
925 as it is off-chip. The interface used is documented
926 in the HPET spec, revision 1.
928 You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be
929 activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
930 Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
932 Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
934 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
936 depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y)
938 # Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong.
939 # The code disables itself when not needed.
942 select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK
943 bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT
945 Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y
946 here unless you have verified that your setup is not
947 affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP
951 bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support"
954 depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB
956 Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron
957 GART based hardware IOMMUs.
959 The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access
960 limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed
961 for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
963 Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via
964 the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option.
966 In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed:
967 there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a
968 32-bit limited device.
972 config BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT
975 If true, at least one selected framebuffer driver can take advantage
976 of VESA video modes set at an early boot stage via the vga= parameter.
979 bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes"
980 depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL
981 select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
983 Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
987 # The maximum number of CPUs supported:
989 # The main config value is NR_CPUS, which defaults to NR_CPUS_DEFAULT,
990 # and which can be configured interactively in the
991 # [NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN ... NR_CPUS_RANGE_END] range.
993 # The ranges are different on 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, depending on
994 # hardware capabilities and scalability features of the kernel.
996 # ( If MAXSMP is enabled we just use the highest possible value and disable
997 # interactive configuration. )
1000 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN
1002 default NR_CPUS_RANGE_END if MAXSMP
1006 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
1009 default 64 if SMP && X86_BIGSMP
1010 default 8 if SMP && !X86_BIGSMP
1013 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
1016 default 8192 if SMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
1017 default 512 if SMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
1020 config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
1023 default 32 if X86_BIGSMP
1027 config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
1030 default 8192 if MAXSMP
1035 int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
1036 range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
1037 default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
1039 This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
1040 kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum
1041 supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The
1042 minimum value which makes sense is 2.
1044 This is purely to save memory: each supported CPU adds about 8KB
1045 to the kernel image.
1047 config SCHED_CLUSTER
1048 bool "Cluster scheduler support"
1052 Cluster scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
1053 making when dealing with machines that have clusters of CPUs.
1054 Cluster usually means a couple of CPUs which are placed closely
1055 by sharing mid-level caches, last-level cache tags or internal
1063 prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
1066 Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
1067 making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
1068 increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
1070 config SCHED_MC_PRIO
1071 bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support"
1073 select X86_INTEL_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_INTEL
1074 select X86_AMD_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_AMD && ACPI
1078 Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a
1079 core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows
1080 certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running
1081 single threaded workloads) than others.
1083 Enabling this kernel feature teaches the scheduler about
1084 the TBM3 (aka ITMT) priority order of the CPU cores and adjusts the
1085 scheduler's CPU selection logic accordingly, so that higher
1086 overall system performance can be achieved.
1088 This feature will have no effect on CPUs without this feature.
1090 If unsure say Y here.
1094 depends on !SMP && X86_LOCAL_APIC
1097 bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI
1099 depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD
1101 A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
1102 integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
1103 system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to
1104 enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't
1105 have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at
1106 all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer,
1107 performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard
1110 config X86_UP_IOAPIC
1111 bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
1112 depends on X86_UP_APIC
1114 An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
1115 SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most
1116 SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one.
1118 If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here
1119 to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have
1120 an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all.
1122 config X86_LOCAL_APIC
1124 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI
1125 select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
1127 config ACPI_MADT_WAKEUP
1132 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
1136 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_UP_IOAPIC
1138 config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
1139 bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
1140 depends on X86_IO_APIC
1142 This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of
1143 spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded
1144 interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of
1145 superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled.
1147 Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ
1148 entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT
1149 kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this
1150 boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps
1151 the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot
1152 IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the
1153 kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this
1154 way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise
1155 the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring
1156 down (vital) interrupt lines.
1158 Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be
1159 increased on these systems.
1162 bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
1163 select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
1166 Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
1167 kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
1168 The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
1169 ranging from warning messages to halting the machine.
1171 config X86_MCELOG_LEGACY
1172 bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device"
1175 Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog
1176 userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation
1179 config X86_MCE_INTEL
1181 prompt "Intel MCE features"
1182 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
1184 Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
1185 the thermal monitor.
1189 prompt "AMD MCE features"
1190 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && AMD_NB
1192 Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
1193 the DRAM Error Threshold.
1195 config X86_ANCIENT_MCE
1196 bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks"
1197 depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
1199 Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip
1200 systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command
1203 config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD
1204 depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL
1207 config X86_MCE_INJECT
1208 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS
1209 tristate "Machine check injector support"
1211 Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes.
1212 If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel
1213 QA it is safe to say n.
1215 source "arch/x86/events/Kconfig"
1217 config X86_LEGACY_VM86
1218 bool "Legacy VM86 support"
1221 This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086
1222 mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode.
1224 Some very old versions of X and/or vbetool require this option
1225 for user mode setting. Similarly, DOSEMU will use it if
1226 available to accelerate real mode DOS programs. However, any
1227 recent version of DOSEMU, X, or vbetool should be fully
1228 functional even without kernel VM86 support, as they will all
1229 fall back to software emulation. Nevertheless, if you are using
1230 a 16-bit DOS program where 16-bit performance matters, vm86
1231 mode might be faster than emulation and you might want to
1234 Note that any app that works on a 64-bit kernel is unlikely to
1235 need this option, as 64-bit kernels don't, and can't, support
1236 V8086 mode. This option is also unrelated to 16-bit protected
1237 mode and is not needed to run most 16-bit programs under Wine.
1239 Enabling this option increases the complexity of the kernel
1240 and slows down exception handling a tiny bit.
1242 If unsure, say N here.
1246 default X86_LEGACY_VM86
1249 bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT
1251 depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
1253 This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit
1254 protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling
1255 this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text
1256 plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64,
1260 depends on X86_16BIT && X86_32
1264 depends on X86_16BIT && X86_64
1266 config X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION
1267 bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT
1271 This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling
1272 it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except
1273 that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program
1274 tries to use a vsyscall. With this option set to N, offending
1275 programs will just segfault, citing addresses of the form
1278 This option is required by many programs built before 2013, and
1279 care should be used even with newer programs if set to N.
1281 Disabling this option saves about 7K of kernel size and
1282 possibly 4K of additional runtime pagetable memory.
1284 config X86_IOPL_IOPERM
1285 bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation"
1288 This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary
1289 for legacy applications.
1291 Legacy IOPL support is an overbroad mechanism which allows user
1292 space aside of accessing all 65536 I/O ports also to disable
1293 interrupts. To gain this access the caller needs CAP_SYS_RAWIO
1294 capabilities and permission from potentially active security
1297 The emulation restricts the functionality of the syscall to
1298 only allowing the full range I/O port access, but prevents the
1299 ability to disable interrupts from user space which would be
1300 granted if the hardware IOPL mechanism would be used.
1303 tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
1306 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of
1307 the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does
1308 not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode
1309 is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables.
1311 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the
1312 Toshiba Linux utilities web site at:
1313 <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>.
1315 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable.
1318 config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
1319 bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
1322 This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done
1323 in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on
1324 some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which
1325 this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung
1328 Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using
1329 CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC.
1331 Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to
1332 enable this option even if you don't need it.
1337 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL
1339 config MICROCODE_INITRD32
1341 depends on MICROCODE && X86_32 && BLK_DEV_INITRD
1343 config MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING
1344 bool "Late microcode loading (DANGEROUS)"
1346 depends on MICROCODE && SMP
1348 Loading microcode late, when the system is up and executing instructions
1349 is a tricky business and should be avoided if possible. Just the sequence
1350 of synchronizing all cores and SMT threads is one fragile dance which does
1351 not guarantee that cores might not softlock after the loading. Therefore,
1352 use this at your own risk. Late loading taints the kernel unless the
1353 microcode header indicates that it is safe for late loading via the
1354 minimal revision check. This minimal revision check can be enforced on
1355 the kernel command line with "microcode.minrev=Y".
1357 config MICROCODE_LATE_FORCE_MINREV
1358 bool "Enforce late microcode loading minimal revision check"
1360 depends on MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING
1362 To prevent that users load microcode late which modifies already
1363 in use features, newer microcode patches have a minimum revision field
1364 in the microcode header, which tells the kernel which minimum
1365 revision must be active in the CPU to safely load that new microcode
1366 late into the running system. If disabled the check will not
1367 be enforced but the kernel will be tainted when the minimal
1368 revision check fails.
1370 This minimal revision check can also be controlled via the
1371 "microcode.minrev" parameter on the kernel command line.
1376 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
1378 This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
1379 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with
1380 major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
1381 MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor
1385 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
1387 This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
1388 be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device
1389 with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
1393 prompt "High Memory Support"
1400 Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
1401 However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
1402 Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of
1403 physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the
1404 kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called
1407 If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
1408 more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
1409 choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
1410 split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
1411 space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
1412 by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
1415 If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then
1418 If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This
1419 selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on.
1420 PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully
1421 supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel
1422 processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here,
1423 then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE!
1425 The actual amount of total physical memory will either be
1426 auto detected or can be forced by using a kernel command line option
1427 such as "mem=256M". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
1428 your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the
1429 kernel at boot time.)
1431 If unsure, say "off".
1436 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
1437 gigabytes of physical RAM.
1441 depends on X86_HAVE_PAE
1444 Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
1445 gigabytes of physical RAM.
1450 prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT
1454 Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
1456 If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
1457 physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available
1458 as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly
1459 than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first.
1460 Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range
1461 available to user programs, making the address space there
1462 tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split
1463 will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only
1466 If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this
1470 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
1471 config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1473 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
1475 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
1476 config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1478 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
1480 bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
1485 default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1486 default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
1487 default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1488 default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G
1494 depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM64G || HIGHMEM4G)
1497 bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
1498 depends on X86_32 && X86_HAVE_PAE
1499 select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
1502 PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
1503 larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
1504 has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
1505 consumes more pagetable space per process.
1508 bool "Enable 5-level page tables support"
1510 select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
1511 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
1514 5-level paging enables access to larger address space:
1515 up to 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of
1516 physical address space.
1518 It will be supported by future Intel CPUs.
1520 A kernel with the option enabled can be booted on machines that
1521 support 4- or 5-level paging.
1523 See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst for more
1528 config X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES
1532 Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel
1533 linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise
1534 supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing
1535 that we have them enabled.
1537 config X86_CPA_STATISTICS
1538 bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute"
1541 Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which
1542 helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge
1543 page mappings when mapping protections are changed.
1545 config X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
1546 select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED
1547 select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
1550 config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
1551 bool "AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support"
1552 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_AMD
1554 select DMA_COHERENT_POOL
1555 select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1556 select INSTRUCTION_DECODER
1557 select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
1558 select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
1559 select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
1561 Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory.
1562 This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory
1565 # Common NUMA Features
1567 bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
1569 depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP)
1570 default y if X86_BIGSMP
1571 select USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
1572 select OF_NUMA if OF
1574 Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support.
1576 The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
1577 local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
1578 NUMA awareness to the kernel.
1580 For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7
1581 (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.
1583 For 32-bit this is only needed if you boot a 32-bit
1584 kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform.
1586 Otherwise, you should say N.
1590 prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
1591 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
1593 Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
1594 you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to
1595 read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge
1596 of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead,
1597 which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
1599 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1601 prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
1602 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
1605 Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
1608 int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP
1610 default "10" if MAXSMP
1611 default "6" if X86_64
1615 Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target
1616 system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables.
1618 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
1620 depends on X86_32 && !NUMA
1622 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
1624 depends on X86_64 || NUMA || X86_32 || X86_32_NON_STANDARD
1625 select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
1626 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
1628 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
1629 def_bool X86_64 || (NUMA && X86_32)
1631 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
1633 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE && ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
1635 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
1636 bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface"
1637 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1639 This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing.
1640 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information.
1641 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1643 config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT
1645 depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE
1647 config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
1650 default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64
1652 config X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE
1655 config X86_PMEM_LEGACY
1656 tristate "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory"
1657 depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
1659 select X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE
1660 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA
1663 Treat memory marked using the non-standard e820 type of 12 as used
1664 by the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP reference BIOS as protected memory.
1665 The kernel will offer these regions to the 'pmem' driver so
1666 they can be used for persistent storage.
1671 bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
1674 The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
1675 For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
1676 low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
1677 entries in high memory.
1679 config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1680 bool "Check for low memory corruption"
1682 Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which
1683 is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the
1684 configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by
1685 setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command
1686 line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60
1687 seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and
1688 memory_corruption_check_period parameters in
1689 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst to adjust this.
1691 When enabled with the default parameters, this option has
1692 almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount
1693 of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption
1694 and prevents it from affecting the running system.
1696 It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable
1697 BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory,
1698 you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that
1701 config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK
1702 bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
1703 depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1706 Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
1709 config MATH_EMULATION
1711 depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
1712 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN)
1714 Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point
1715 operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have
1716 a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added
1717 a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can
1718 give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a
1719 coprocessor or this emulation.
1721 If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you
1722 say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will
1723 be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel
1724 command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor
1725 is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot
1726 loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at
1727 boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you
1728 intend to use this kernel on different machines.
1730 More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor
1731 emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>.
1733 If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger
1734 kernel, it won't hurt.
1738 prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT
1740 On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
1741 the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
1742 processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
1743 a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining
1744 allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer
1745 before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance
1746 of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a
1747 /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's
1748 MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this.
1750 This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar
1751 control registers on other processors can be easily supported
1754 The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range
1755 Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For
1756 these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs.
1757 The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two
1758 MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing
1759 write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code
1760 and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them.
1762 Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only
1763 set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This
1764 can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here.
1766 You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll
1767 just add about 9 KB to your kernel.
1769 See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/mtrr.rst> for more information.
1771 config MTRR_SANITIZER
1773 prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
1776 Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can
1777 add writeback entries.
1779 Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line.
1780 The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with
1785 config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
1786 int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)"
1789 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1791 Enable mtrr cleanup default value
1793 config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
1794 int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)"
1797 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1799 mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via
1800 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line.
1804 prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT
1806 select ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2
1808 Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control.
1810 PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more
1811 flexible than MTRRs.
1813 Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang,
1814 spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver.
1820 prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT
1822 User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in
1823 some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is
1824 issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are
1825 executed in user mode. These instructions unnecessarily expose
1826 information about the hardware state.
1828 The vast majority of applications do not use these instructions.
1829 For the very few that do, software emulation is provided in
1830 specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated
1834 # GCC >= 9 and binutils >= 2.29
1835 # Retpoline check to work around https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93654
1837 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e0b89df2e0f0130881bf6c39bf31d7f6aac00e0f
1838 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dfcf69770bc522b9e411c66454934a37c1f35332
1839 def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || \
1840 (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \
1846 CET features configured (Shadow stack or IBT)
1848 config X86_KERNEL_IBT
1849 prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking"
1851 depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && HAVE_OBJTOOL
1852 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
1853 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000
1857 Build the kernel with support for Indirect Branch Tracking, a
1858 hardware support course-grain forward-edge Control Flow Integrity
1859 protection. It enforces that all indirect calls must land on
1860 an ENDBR instruction, as such, the compiler will instrument the
1861 code with them to make this happen.
1863 In addition to building the kernel with IBT, seal all functions that
1864 are not indirect call targets, avoiding them ever becoming one.
1866 This requires LTO like objtool runs and will slow down the build. It
1867 does significantly reduce the number of ENDBR instructions in the
1870 config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
1871 prompt "Memory Protection Keys"
1873 # Note: only available in 64-bit mode
1874 depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
1875 select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
1876 select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
1878 Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing
1879 page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
1880 page tables when an application changes protection domains.
1882 For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
1886 config ARCH_PKEY_BITS
1891 prompt "TSX enable mode"
1892 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
1893 default X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF
1895 Intel's TSX (Transactional Synchronization Extensions) feature
1896 allows to optimize locking protocols through lock elision which
1897 can lead to a noticeable performance boost.
1899 On the other hand it has been shown that TSX can be exploited
1900 to form side channel attacks (e.g. TAA) and chances are there
1901 will be more of those attacks discovered in the future.
1903 Therefore TSX is not enabled by default (aka tsx=off). An admin
1904 might override this decision by tsx=on the command line parameter.
1905 Even with TSX enabled, the kernel will attempt to enable the best
1906 possible TAA mitigation setting depending on the microcode available
1907 for the particular machine.
1909 This option allows to set the default tsx mode between tsx=on, =off
1910 and =auto. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more
1913 Say off if not sure, auto if TSX is in use but it should be used on safe
1914 platforms or on if TSX is in use and the security aspect of tsx is not
1917 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF
1920 TSX is disabled if possible - equals to tsx=off command line parameter.
1922 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON
1925 TSX is always enabled on TSX capable HW - equals the tsx=on command
1928 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO
1931 TSX is enabled on TSX capable HW that is believed to be safe against
1932 side channel attacks- equals the tsx=auto command line parameter.
1936 bool "Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)"
1937 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_X2APIC
1939 depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y
1941 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA
1944 Intel(R) Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions
1945 that can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code
1946 and data, referred to as enclaves. An enclave's private memory can
1947 only be accessed by code running within the enclave. Accesses from
1948 outside the enclave, including other enclaves, are disallowed by
1953 config X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
1954 bool "X86 userspace shadow stack"
1957 select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
1958 select ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK
1961 Shadow stack protection is a hardware feature that detects function
1962 return address corruption. This helps mitigate ROP attacks.
1963 Applications must be enabled to use it, and old userspace does not
1964 get protection "for free".
1966 CPUs supporting shadow stacks were first released in 2020.
1968 See Documentation/arch/x86/shstk.rst for more information.
1972 config INTEL_TDX_HOST
1973 bool "Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) host support"
1974 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
1976 depends on KVM_INTEL
1977 depends on X86_X2APIC
1978 select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
1979 depends on CONTIG_ALLOC
1980 depends on !KEXEC_CORE
1983 Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious
1984 host and certain physical attacks. This option enables necessary TDX
1985 support in the host kernel to run confidential VMs.
1990 bool "EFI runtime service support"
1993 select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
1994 select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1995 select EFI_RUNTIME_MAP if KEXEC_CORE
1997 This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
1998 available (such as the EFI variable services).
2000 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
2001 In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
2002 at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
2003 of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
2004 resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
2008 bool "EFI stub support"
2012 This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
2013 by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.
2015 See Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst for more information.
2017 config EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL
2018 bool "EFI handover protocol (DEPRECATED)"
2022 Select this in order to include support for the deprecated EFI
2023 handover protocol, which defines alternative entry points into the
2024 EFI stub. This is a practice that has no basis in the UEFI
2025 specification, and requires a priori knowledge on the part of the
2026 bootloader about Linux/x86 specific ways of passing the command line
2027 and initrd, and where in memory those assets may be loaded.
2029 If in doubt, say Y. Even though the corresponding support is not
2030 present in upstream GRUB or other bootloaders, most distros build
2031 GRUB with numerous downstream patches applied, and may rely on the
2032 handover protocol as as result.
2035 bool "EFI mixed-mode support"
2036 depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64
2038 Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted
2039 on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit
2042 Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled
2043 kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports
2044 the EFI handover protocol must be used.
2048 config EFI_RUNTIME_MAP
2049 bool "Export EFI runtime maps to sysfs" if EXPERT
2052 Export EFI runtime memory regions to /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map.
2053 That memory map is required by the 2nd kernel to set up EFI virtual
2054 mappings after kexec, but can also be used for debugging purposes.
2056 See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map.
2058 source "kernel/Kconfig.hz"
2060 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC
2063 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
2066 config ARCH_SELECTS_KEXEC_FILE
2068 depends on KEXEC_FILE
2069 select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA
2071 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
2074 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG
2077 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG_FORCE
2080 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG
2083 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_JUMP
2086 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP
2087 def_bool X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
2089 config ARCH_DEFAULT_CRASH_DUMP
2092 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_HOTPLUG
2095 config ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION
2096 def_bool CRASH_RESERVE
2098 config PHYSICAL_START
2099 hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP)
2102 This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
2104 If the kernel is not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then bzImage
2105 will decompress itself to above physical address and run from there.
2106 Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where it has been loaded
2107 by the boot loader. The only exception is if it is loaded below the
2108 above physical address, in which case it will relocate itself there.
2110 In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
2111 as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
2112 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
2113 address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
2114 to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
2115 vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
2116 to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
2117 (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
2119 So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump,
2120 leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set
2121 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux
2122 for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of
2123 the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on
2124 the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM"
2125 command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed
2126 kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
2127 for more details about crash dumps.
2129 Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
2130 one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
2131 as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
2132 gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
2133 is present because there are users out there who continue to use
2134 vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
2137 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
2140 bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
2143 This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
2144 so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
2145 The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
2146 but are discarded at runtime.
2148 One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
2149 must live at a different physical address than the primary
2152 Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
2153 it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address
2154 (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location.
2156 config RANDOMIZE_BASE
2157 bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)"
2158 depends on RELOCATABLE
2161 In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR),
2162 this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image
2163 is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel
2164 image is mapped, as a security feature that deters exploit
2165 attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel
2168 On 64-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are
2169 randomized separately. The physical address will be anywhere
2170 between 16MB and the top of physical memory (up to 64TB). The
2171 virtual address will be randomized from 16MB up to 1GB (9 bits
2172 of entropy). Note that this also reduces the memory space
2173 available to kernel modules from 1.5GB to 1GB.
2175 On 32-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are
2176 randomized together. They will be randomized from 16MB up to
2177 512MB (8 bits of entropy).
2179 Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is
2180 supported. If RDTSC is supported, its value is mixed into
2181 the entropy pool as well. If neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are
2182 supported, then entropy is read from the i8254 timer. The
2183 usable entropy is limited by the kernel being built using
2184 2GB addressing, and that PHYSICAL_ALIGN must be at a
2185 minimum of 2MB. As a result, only 10 bits of entropy are
2186 theoretically possible, but the implementations are further
2187 limited due to memory layouts.
2191 # Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support
2192 config X86_NEED_RELOCS
2194 depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE)
2196 config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
2197 hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
2199 range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32
2200 range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64
2202 This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
2203 where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
2204 address which meets above alignment restriction.
2206 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
2207 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest
2208 address aligned to above value and run from there.
2210 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
2211 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time
2212 load address and decompress itself to the address it has been
2213 compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is
2214 compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the
2215 end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting
2216 above alignment restrictions.
2218 On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit
2219 this value must be a multiple of 0x200000.
2221 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
2223 config DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
2226 This option makes base addresses of vmalloc and vmemmap as well as
2227 __PAGE_OFFSET movable during boot.
2229 config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
2230 bool "Randomize the kernel memory sections"
2232 depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE
2233 select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
2234 default RANDOMIZE_BASE
2236 Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections
2237 (physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature
2238 makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable.
2240 The order of allocations remains unchanged. Entropy is generated in
2241 the same way as RANDOMIZE_BASE. Current implementation in the optimal
2242 configuration have in average 30,000 different possible virtual
2243 addresses for each memory section.
2247 config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING
2248 hex "Physical memory mapping padding" if EXPERT
2249 depends on RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
2250 default "0xa" if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
2252 range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
2255 Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical
2256 memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful
2257 for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for
2258 address randomization.
2260 If unsure, leave at the default value.
2262 config ADDRESS_MASKING
2263 bool "Linear Address Masking support"
2265 depends on COMPILE_TEST || !CPU_MITIGATIONS # wait for LASS
2267 Linear Address Masking (LAM) modifies the checking that is applied
2268 to 64-bit linear addresses, allowing software to use of the
2269 untranslated address bits for metadata.
2271 The capability can be used for efficient address sanitizers (ASAN)
2272 implementation and for optimizations in JITs.
2280 prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
2281 depends on COMPAT_32
2283 Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
2284 presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address
2285 indicated in its segment table.
2287 The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a
2288 and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and
2289 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is
2290 the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9
2291 contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2".
2293 The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying:
2294 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
2296 Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot
2297 option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely.
2298 This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance.
2300 If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you
2301 are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc.
2304 prompt "vsyscall table for legacy applications"
2306 default LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY
2308 Legacy user code that does not know how to find the vDSO expects
2309 to be able to issue three syscalls by calling fixed addresses in
2310 kernel space. Since this location is not randomized with ASLR,
2311 it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation.
2313 This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command
2314 line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|xonly|none]. Emulate mode
2315 is deprecated and can only be enabled using the kernel command
2318 On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no
2319 static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty
2320 to improve security.
2322 If unsure, select "Emulate execution only".
2324 config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY
2325 bool "Emulate execution only"
2327 The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall
2328 address mapping and does not allow reads. This
2329 configuration is recommended when userspace might use the
2330 legacy vsyscall area but support for legacy binary
2331 instrumentation of legacy code is not needed. It mitigates
2332 certain uses of the vsyscall area as an ASLR-bypassing
2335 config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE
2338 There will be no vsyscall mapping at all. This will
2339 eliminate any risk of ASLR bypass due to the vsyscall
2340 fixed address mapping. Attempts to use the vsyscalls
2341 will be reported to dmesg, so that either old or
2342 malicious userspace programs can be identified.
2347 bool "Built-in kernel command line"
2349 Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
2350 build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
2351 necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
2352 kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is,
2353 to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.)
2355 To compile command line arguments into the kernel,
2356 set this option to 'Y', then fill in the
2357 boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
2359 Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded)
2360 should leave this option set to 'N'.
2363 string "Built-in kernel command string"
2364 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
2367 Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
2368 image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a
2369 command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
2370 form the full kernel command line, when the system boots.
2372 However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to
2373 change this behavior.
2375 In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided
2376 by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root
2379 config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
2380 bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
2381 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != ""
2383 Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
2384 command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
2386 This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should
2387 be set to 'N' under normal conditions.
2389 config MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
2390 bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT
2393 Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86
2394 Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system
2395 call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as
2396 DOSEMU or some Wine programs. It is also used by some very old
2397 threading libraries.
2399 Enabling this feature adds a small amount of overhead to
2400 context switches and increases the low-level kernel attack
2401 surface. Disabling it removes the modify_ldt(2) system call.
2403 Saying 'N' here may make sense for embedded or server kernels.
2405 config STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE
2406 bool "Enforce strict size checking for sigaltstack"
2407 depends on DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
2409 For historical reasons MINSIGSTKSZ is a constant which became
2410 already too small with AVX512 support. Add a mechanism to
2411 enforce strict checking of the sigaltstack size against the
2412 real size of the FPU frame. This option enables the check
2413 by default. It can also be controlled via the kernel command
2414 line option 'strict_sas_size' independent of this config
2415 switch. Enabling it might break existing applications which
2416 allocate a too small sigaltstack but 'work' because they
2417 never get a signal delivered.
2419 Say 'N' unless you want to really enforce this check.
2421 config CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT
2422 bool "Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time"
2426 Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time. If enabled,
2427 this is the same as booting with "cfi=auto". If disabled,
2428 this is the same as booting with "cfi=kcfi".
2430 source "kernel/livepatch/Kconfig"
2432 config X86_BUS_LOCK_DETECT
2433 bool "Split Lock Detect and Bus Lock Detect support"
2434 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD
2437 Enable Split Lock Detect and Bus Lock Detect functionalities.
2438 See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst> for more information.
2442 config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS
2443 def_bool $(success,echo 'int __seg_fs fs; int __seg_gs gs;' | $(CC) -x c - -S -o /dev/null)
2444 depends on CC_IS_GCC
2446 config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS
2447 def_bool CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 130300
2449 config USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT
2451 depends on CC_HAS_NAMED_AS
2453 # -fsanitize=kernel-address (KASAN) and -fsanitize=thread
2454 # (KCSAN) are incompatible with named address spaces with
2455 # GCC < 13.3 - see GCC PR sanitizer/111736.
2457 depends on !(KASAN || KCSAN) || CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS
2460 def_bool $(cc-option,-mharden-sls=all)
2462 config CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK
2463 def_bool $(cc-option,-mfunction-return=thunk-extern)
2465 config CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING
2466 def_bool $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=16,16)
2468 config FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI
2470 default 59 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B
2471 default 27 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B
2472 default 11 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B
2473 default 3 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B
2476 # Basically: FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT - 5*CFI_CLANG
2477 # except Kconfig can't do arithmetic :/
2478 config FUNCTION_PADDING_BYTES
2480 default FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI if CFI_CLANG
2481 default FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
2485 depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && OBJTOOL
2486 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B
2490 depends on X86_KERNEL_IBT && CFI_CLANG && MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
2493 config HAVE_CALL_THUNKS
2495 depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && OBJTOOL
2501 config PREFIX_SYMBOLS
2503 depends on CALL_PADDING && !CFI_CLANG
2505 menuconfig CPU_MITIGATIONS
2506 bool "Mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities"
2509 Say Y here to enable options which enable mitigations for hardware
2510 vulnerabilities (usually related to speculative execution).
2511 Mitigations can be disabled or restricted to SMT systems at runtime
2512 via the "mitigations" kernel parameter.
2514 If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. This CANNOT be
2515 overridden at runtime.
2517 Say 'Y', unless you really know what you are doing.
2521 config MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
2522 bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode"
2524 depends on (X86_64 || X86_PAE)
2526 This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by
2527 ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped
2530 See Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst for more details.
2532 config MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
2533 bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel"
2534 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL
2537 Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against
2538 kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect
2539 branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
2540 support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.
2542 config MITIGATION_RETHUNK
2543 bool "Enable return-thunks"
2544 depends on MITIGATION_RETPOLINE && CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK
2545 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL
2548 Compile the kernel with the return-thunks compiler option to guard
2549 against kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding return speculation.
2550 Requires a compiler with -mfunction-return=thunk-extern
2551 support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.
2553 config MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
2554 bool "Enable UNRET on kernel entry"
2555 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && X86_64
2558 Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=unret mitigation.
2560 config MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING
2561 bool "Mitigate RSB underflow with call depth tracking"
2562 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && HAVE_CALL_THUNKS
2563 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
2567 Compile the kernel with call depth tracking to mitigate the Intel
2568 SKL Return-Stack-Buffer (RSB) underflow issue. The mitigation is off
2569 by default and needs to be enabled on the kernel command line via the
2570 retbleed=stuff option. For non-affected systems the overhead of this
2571 option is marginal as the call depth tracking is using run-time
2572 generated call thunks in a compiler generated padding area and call
2573 patching. This increases text size by ~5%. For non affected systems
2574 this space is unused. On affected SKL systems this results in a
2575 significant performance gain over the IBRS mitigation.
2577 config CALL_THUNKS_DEBUG
2578 bool "Enable call thunks and call depth tracking debugging"
2579 depends on MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING
2580 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B
2583 Enable call/ret counters for imbalance detection and build in
2584 a noisy dmesg about callthunks generation and call patching for
2585 trouble shooting. The debug prints need to be enabled on the
2586 kernel command line with 'debug-callthunks'.
2587 Only enable this when you are debugging call thunks as this
2588 creates a noticeable runtime overhead. If unsure say N.
2590 config MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
2591 bool "Enable IBPB on kernel entry"
2592 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64
2595 Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=ibpb mitigation.
2597 config MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
2598 bool "Enable IBRS on kernel entry"
2599 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64
2602 Compile the kernel with support for the spectre_v2=ibrs mitigation.
2603 This mitigates both spectre_v2 and retbleed at great cost to
2606 config MITIGATION_SRSO
2607 bool "Mitigate speculative RAS overflow on AMD"
2608 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64 && MITIGATION_RETHUNK
2611 Enable the SRSO mitigation needed on AMD Zen1-4 machines.
2613 config MITIGATION_SLS
2614 bool "Mitigate Straight-Line-Speculation"
2615 depends on CC_HAS_SLS && X86_64
2616 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL
2619 Compile the kernel with straight-line-speculation options to guard
2620 against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly
2623 config MITIGATION_GDS
2624 bool "Mitigate Gather Data Sampling"
2625 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2628 Enable mitigation for Gather Data Sampling (GDS). GDS is a hardware
2629 vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data
2630 which was previously stored in vector registers. The attacker uses gather
2631 instructions to infer the stale vector register data.
2633 config MITIGATION_RFDS
2634 bool "RFDS Mitigation"
2635 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2638 Enable mitigation for Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) by default.
2639 RFDS is a hardware vulnerability which affects Intel Atom CPUs. It
2640 allows unprivileged speculative access to stale data previously
2641 stored in floating point, vector and integer registers.
2642 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst>
2644 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI
2645 bool "Mitigate Spectre-BHB (Branch History Injection)"
2646 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2649 Enable BHI mitigations. BHI attacks are a form of Spectre V2 attacks
2650 where the branch history buffer is poisoned to speculatively steer
2652 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst>
2654 config MITIGATION_MDS
2655 bool "Mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware bug"
2656 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2659 Enable mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is
2660 a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access
2661 to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers.
2662 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst>
2664 config MITIGATION_TAA
2665 bool "Mitigate TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) hardware bug"
2666 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2669 Enable mitigation for TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA). TAA is a hardware
2670 vulnerability that allows unprivileged speculative access to data
2671 which is available in various CPU internal buffers by using
2672 asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX transactional region.
2673 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst>
2675 config MITIGATION_MMIO_STALE_DATA
2676 bool "Mitigate MMIO Stale Data hardware bug"
2677 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2680 Enable mitigation for MMIO Stale Data hardware bugs. Processor MMIO
2681 Stale Data Vulnerabilities are a class of memory-mapped I/O (MMIO)
2682 vulnerabilities that can expose data. The vulnerabilities require the
2683 attacker to have access to MMIO.
2685 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst>
2687 config MITIGATION_L1TF
2688 bool "Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug"
2689 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2692 Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug. L1 Terminal Fault is a
2693 hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data
2694 available in the Level 1 Data Cache.
2695 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2697 config MITIGATION_RETBLEED
2698 bool "Mitigate RETBleed hardware bug"
2699 depends on (CPU_SUP_INTEL && MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) || MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY || MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
2702 Enable mitigation for RETBleed (Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution
2703 with Return Instructions) vulnerability. RETBleed is a speculative
2704 execution attack which takes advantage of microarchitectural behavior
2705 in many modern microprocessors, similar to Spectre v2. An
2706 unprivileged attacker can use these flaws to bypass conventional
2707 memory security restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory
2708 that would otherwise be inaccessible.
2710 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V1
2711 bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V1 hardware bug"
2714 Enable mitigation for Spectre V1 (Bounds Check Bypass). Spectre V1 is a
2715 class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of speculative
2716 execution that bypasses conditional branch instructions used for
2717 memory access bounds check.
2718 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst>
2720 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2
2721 bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V2 hardware bug"
2724 Enable mitigation for Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection). Spectre
2725 V2 is a class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of
2726 indirect branch predictors inside the processor. In Spectre variant 2
2727 attacks, the attacker can steer speculative indirect branches in the
2728 victim to gadget code by poisoning the branch target buffer of a CPU
2729 used for predicting indirect branch addresses.
2730 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst>
2732 config MITIGATION_SRBDS
2733 bool "Mitigate Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) hardware bug"
2734 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2737 Enable mitigation for Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS).
2738 SRBDS is a hardware vulnerability that allows Microarchitectural Data
2739 Sampling (MDS) techniques to infer values returned from special
2740 register accesses. An unprivileged user can extract values returned
2741 from RDRAND and RDSEED executed on another core or sibling thread
2742 using MDS techniques.
2744 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst>
2746 config MITIGATION_SSB
2747 bool "Mitigate Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) hardware bug"
2750 Enable mitigation for Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). SSB is a
2751 hardware security vulnerability and its exploitation takes advantage
2752 of speculative execution in a similar way to the Meltdown and Spectre
2753 security vulnerabilities.
2757 config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
2759 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
2761 menu "Power management and ACPI options"
2763 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
2765 depends on HIBERNATION
2767 source "kernel/power/Kconfig"
2769 source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
2776 tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
2777 depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP
2779 APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
2780 techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
2781 APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
2782 reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide
2783 battery status information, and user-space programs will receive
2784 notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change).
2786 If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM
2787 BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time.
2789 Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for
2790 machines with more than one CPU.
2792 In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location
2793 and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.rst>
2794 and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
2795 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2797 This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8)
2798 manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off
2799 VESA-compliant "green" monitors.
2801 This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER
2802 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green"
2803 desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver
2804 may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase.
2806 Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't
2807 much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get
2808 random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to
2809 anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling
2812 Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random,
2815 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is
2817 2) pass the "idle=poll" option to the kernel
2818 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass
2819 the "no387" option to the kernel
2820 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel
2821 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling
2822 all but the first 4 MB of RAM)
2823 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked.
2824 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>
2825 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings
2826 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM
2827 10) install a better fan for the CPU
2828 11) exchange RAM chips
2829 12) exchange the motherboard.
2831 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
2832 module will be called apm.
2836 config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
2837 bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
2839 This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
2840 compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
2841 series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug.
2843 config APM_DO_ENABLE
2844 bool "Enable PM at boot time"
2846 Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
2847 specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
2848 power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend
2849 State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls."
2850 This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this
2851 feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This
2852 should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features
2853 will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn
2854 this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM
2855 support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn
2856 this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba
2857 T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without
2862 bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
2864 Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
2865 On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
2866 a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls
2867 are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g.,
2868 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or
2869 whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU,
2870 this option does nothing.)
2872 config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
2873 bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
2875 Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
2876 turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
2877 virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by
2878 the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight
2879 when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to
2880 do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this
2881 option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your
2882 backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console,
2883 especially if you are using gpm.
2885 config APM_ALLOW_INTS
2886 bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
2888 Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
2889 the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
2890 BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it
2891 needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in
2892 many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you
2893 suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N.
2897 source "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig"
2899 source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
2901 source "drivers/idle/Kconfig"
2905 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)"
2908 prompt "PCI access mode"
2909 depends on X86_32 && PCI
2912 On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and
2913 determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards
2914 have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded
2915 PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to
2916 detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS.
2918 With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the
2919 PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used,
2920 if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you
2921 choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used.
2922 If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the
2923 direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't
2924 work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any".
2929 config PCI_GOMMCONFIG
2946 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY)
2948 # x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct.
2951 depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG))
2954 bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" if X86_64
2956 depends on PCI && (ACPI || JAILHOUSE_GUEST)
2957 depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)
2961 depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY)
2965 depends on PCI && XEN
2967 config MMCONF_FAM10H
2969 depends on X86_64 && PCI_MMCONFIG && ACPI
2971 config PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK
2972 bool "Read CNB20LE Host Bridge Windows" if EXPERT
2975 Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows
2976 PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do
2979 There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality
2980 is known to be incomplete.
2982 You should say N unless you know you need this.
2985 bool "ISA bus support on modern systems" if EXPERT
2987 Expose ISA bus device drivers and options available for selection and
2988 configuration. Enable this option if your target machine has an ISA
2989 bus. ISA is an older system, displaced by PCI and newer bus
2990 architectures -- if your target machine is modern, it probably does
2991 not have an ISA bus.
2995 # x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA.
2997 bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT)
3000 Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers.
3008 Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the
3009 name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
3010 inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
3011 (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI;
3012 newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
3015 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
3017 This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
3018 (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the
3019 PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
3020 for other scx200_* drivers.
3022 If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200.
3024 config SCx200HR_TIMER
3025 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
3029 This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
3030 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for
3031 NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
3032 processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The
3033 other workaround is idle=poll boot option.
3036 bool "One Laptop Per Child support"
3044 Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
3048 bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management"
3049 depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP
3051 Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop.
3054 bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock"
3055 depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS
3057 Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a
3058 programmable wakeup source.
3061 bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras"
3062 depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y
3066 Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop:
3067 - EC-driven system wakeups
3071 - AC adapter status updates
3072 - Battery status updates
3074 config OLPC_XO15_SCI
3075 bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras"
3076 depends on OLPC && ACPI
3079 Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop:
3080 - EC-driven system wakeups
3081 - AC adapter status updates
3082 - Battery status updates
3088 bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)"
3092 This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX.
3093 At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on
3094 ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should
3097 Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support
3098 (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs
3100 Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS.
3103 bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
3107 This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501.
3110 bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
3115 This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS.
3118 bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support"
3120 select CHECK_SIGNATURE
3124 This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500.
3130 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI
3134 menu "Binary Emulations"
3136 config IA32_EMULATION
3137 bool "IA32 Emulation"
3139 select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
3141 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
3143 Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a
3144 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're
3145 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left.
3147 config IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED
3148 bool "IA32 emulation disabled by default"
3150 depends on IA32_EMULATION
3152 Make IA32 emulation disabled by default. This prevents loading 32-bit
3153 processes and access to 32-bit syscalls. If unsure, leave it to its
3157 bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode"
3159 # llvm-objcopy does not convert x86_64 .note.gnu.property or
3160 # compressed debug sections to x86_x32 properly:
3161 # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/514
3162 # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1141
3163 depends on $(success,$(OBJCOPY) --version | head -n1 | grep -qv llvm)
3165 Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI
3166 for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the
3167 full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving
3168 pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint.
3172 depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_32
3174 select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
3178 depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32_ABI
3180 config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
3186 config HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP
3190 source "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig"
3192 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler"