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_HAS_PTDUMP
30 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS
31 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128
32 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK
33 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
34 select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
35 select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
36 select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
38 select ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT
40 select EXECMEM if DYNAMIC_FTRACE
41 select ACPI_MRRM if ACPI
43 config FORCE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
46 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
49 We keep the static function tracing (!DYNAMIC_FTRACE) around
50 in order to test the non static function tracing in the
51 generic code, as other architectures still use it. But we
52 only need to keep it around for x86_64. No need to keep it
53 for x86_32. For x86_32, force DYNAMIC_FTRACE.
57 # ( Note that options that are marked 'if X86_64' could in principle be
58 # ported to 32-bit as well. )
63 # Note: keep this list sorted alphabetically
65 select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI
66 select ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT if ACPI
67 select ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU if ACPI_PROCESSOR && HOTPLUG_CPU
68 select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if X86_32
69 select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT
70 select ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS
71 select ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE
72 select ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION if X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION
73 select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG if X86_64
74 select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
75 select ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK if (PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2) && (X86_64 || X86_PAE)
76 select ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if X86_64 && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
77 select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE if ACPI
78 select ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
79 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_INVALIDATE_MEMREGION
80 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT
81 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID if IOMMU_SVA
83 select ARCH_HAS_CRC64 if X86_64
84 select ARCH_HAS_CRC_T10DIF
85 select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
86 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
87 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE if !X86_PAE
88 select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
89 select ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS if GART_IOMMU || XEN
90 select ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG if KGDB
91 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
92 select ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX if X86_64 && STRICT_MODULE_RWX
93 select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
94 select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
95 select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
96 select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64
97 select ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT
98 select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
99 select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
100 select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
101 select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
102 select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64
103 select ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY
104 select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP if X86_64
105 select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
106 select ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG
107 select ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG if PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2
108 select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64
109 select ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC if X86_64
110 select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
111 select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
112 select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
113 select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
114 select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
115 select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
116 select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
117 select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
118 select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET if EXPERT
119 select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
120 select ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
121 select ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
122 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI
123 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
124 select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
125 select ARCH_STACKWALK
126 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI
127 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
128 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
129 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK if X86_64
130 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64
131 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if NR_CPUS <= 4096
132 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG if X86_64
133 select ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS if X86_64 && CFI_CLANG
134 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
135 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
136 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
137 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_AUTOFDO_CLANG
138 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PROPELLER_CLANG if X86_64
139 select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
140 select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if X86_CX8
141 select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
142 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
143 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
144 select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS
145 select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
146 select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT if X86_64
147 select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
148 select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
149 select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
150 select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
151 select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
152 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP if X86_64
153 select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if X86_64
154 select ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT if X86_64
155 select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64
156 select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH
157 select ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
158 select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
160 select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
161 # Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0
162 # in strings and cause false KMSAN reports.
163 select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !KMSAN
164 select DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
165 select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB
167 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
168 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST_IDLE if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
169 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
170 select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
171 select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
172 select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
173 select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
174 select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
177 select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP
178 select GENERIC_IRQ_MATRIX_ALLOCATOR if X86_LOCAL_APIC
179 select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION if SMP
180 select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
181 select GENERIC_IRQ_RESERVATION_MODE
182 select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
183 select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP
184 select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
185 select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
186 select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
187 select GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE
188 select GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
189 select GENERIC_VDSO_OVERFLOW_PROTECT
190 select GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH if X86_PAE
191 select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
192 select HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP if X86_64
194 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI
195 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI
196 select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
197 select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
198 select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE
199 select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC if X86_64
200 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
201 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
202 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64
203 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if X86_64
204 select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE
205 select HAVE_ARCH_KMSAN if X86_64
206 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
207 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
208 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT
209 select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT
210 select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
211 select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
212 select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
213 select HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
214 select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
215 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
216 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64
217 select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD
218 select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD
219 select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64
220 select HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET
221 select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
222 select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
223 select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
224 select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
225 select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER if X86_64
226 select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_OFFSTACK if HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
227 select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
228 select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL
229 select HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT if HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
230 select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
231 select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
232 select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
233 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
234 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
235 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS if X86_64
236 select HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS if X86_64
237 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
238 select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT if X86_64
239 select HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_MULTI if X86_64
241 select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
242 select HAVE_EISA if X86_32
243 select HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
245 select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64 || DYNAMIC_FTRACE
246 select HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
247 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
248 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
249 select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if X86_32 || (X86_64 && DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
250 select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
251 select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
252 select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
253 select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
254 select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64
255 select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
256 select HAVE_JUMP_LABEL_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL
257 select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
258 select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
259 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
260 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
261 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
262 select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
263 select HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
265 select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
266 select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
267 select HAVE_KRETPROBES
269 select HAVE_LIVEPATCH if X86_64
270 select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
271 select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
274 select HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK if HAVE_OBJTOOL
276 select HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL
277 select HAVE_OBJTOOL if X86_64
278 select HAVE_OPTPROBES
279 select HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_4KB
280 select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
281 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
282 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
283 select HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
285 select HAVE_PERF_REGS
286 select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
287 select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
288 select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
289 select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
290 select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
291 select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if UNWINDER_ORC || STACK_VALIDATION
292 select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
293 select HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
294 select HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK
295 select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
296 select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL
297 select HAVE_STATIC_CALL
298 select HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE if HAVE_OBJTOOL
299 select HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL
301 select HAVE_RUST if X86_64
302 select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
303 select HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION if HAVE_OBJTOOL
304 select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
305 select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
306 select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
307 select VDSO_GETRANDOM if X86_64
308 select HOTPLUG_PARALLEL if SMP && X86_64
309 select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP
310 select HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP if SMP && X86_32
311 select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
312 select LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA
313 select NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
314 select NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK
315 select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
316 select NUMA_MEMBLKS if NUMA
317 select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI
318 select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG if PCI
321 select RTC_MC146818_LIB
323 select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
324 select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
325 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
326 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT
327 select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
328 select HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN if X86_64
329 select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS
330 select HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP if X86_SGX
331 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B if X86_64 || X86_ALIGNMENT_16
332 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B
333 imply IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI
334 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
335 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM if X86_64
337 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
339 depends on KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES
343 default "elf32-i386" if X86_32
344 default "elf64-x86-64" if X86_64
346 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
349 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
355 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
359 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
363 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
366 config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
372 config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
374 depends on ISA_DMA_API
378 default y if KMSAN || KASAN
383 select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64
385 config GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
388 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
390 depends on ISA_DMA_API
392 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
395 config ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX
398 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
401 config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
407 config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
410 default 0xdffffc0000000000
412 config HAVE_INTEL_TXT
414 depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI
418 depends on X86_64 && SMP
420 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
423 config FIX_EARLYCON_MEM
426 config DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
429 config PGTABLE_LEVELS
435 menu "Processor type and features"
438 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
440 This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
441 a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
444 If you say N here, the kernel will run on uni- and multiprocessor
445 machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
446 you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
447 uniprocessor machines. On a uniprocessor machine, the kernel
448 will run faster if you say N here.
450 Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
451 "Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
452 architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
453 architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
455 People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
456 Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
457 Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
459 See also <file:Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst>,
460 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
461 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
463 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
466 bool "x2APIC interrupt controller architecture support"
467 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
470 x2APIC is an interrupt controller architecture, a component of which
471 (the local APIC) is present in the CPU. It allows faster access to
472 the local APIC and supports a larger number of CPUs in the system
473 than the predecessors.
475 x2APIC was introduced in Intel CPUs around 2008 and in AMD EPYC CPUs
476 in 2019, but it can be disabled by the BIOS. It is also frequently
477 emulated in virtual machines, even when the host CPU does not support
478 it. Support in the CPU can be checked by executing
479 grep x2apic /proc/cpuinfo
481 If this configuration option is disabled, the kernel will boot with
482 very reduced functionality and performance on some platforms that
483 have x2APIC enabled. On the other hand, on hardware that does not
484 support x2APIC, a kernel with this option enabled will just fallback
485 to older APIC implementations.
489 config X86_POSTED_MSI
490 bool "Enable MSI and MSI-x delivery by posted interrupts"
491 depends on X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP
493 This enables MSIs that are under interrupt remapping to be delivered as
494 posted interrupts to the host kernel. Interrupt throughput can
495 potentially be improved by coalescing CPU notifications during high
498 If you don't know what to do here, say N.
501 bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
503 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
505 For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems
506 (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it
508 config X86_CPU_RESCTRL
509 bool "x86 CPU resource control support"
510 depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
511 depends on MISC_FILESYSTEMS
512 select ARCH_HAS_CPU_RESCTRL
514 select RESCTRL_FS_PSEUDO_LOCK
516 Enable x86 CPU resource control support.
518 Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources
521 Intel calls this Intel Resource Director Technology
522 (Intel(R) RDT). More information about RDT can be found in the
523 Intel x86 Architecture Software Developer Manual.
525 AMD calls this AMD Platform Quality of Service (AMD QoS).
526 More information about AMD QoS can be found in the AMD64 Technology
527 Platform Quality of Service Extensions manual.
532 bool "Flexible Return and Event Delivery"
535 When enabled, try to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery
536 instead of the legacy SYSCALL/SYSENTER/IDT architecture for
537 ring transitions and exception/interrupt handling if the
540 config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
541 bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
544 If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
545 standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
548 If you enable this option then you'll be able to select support
549 for the following non-PC x86 platforms, depending on the value of
552 32-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=n):
553 Goldfish (mostly Android emulator)
554 Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SoC
558 64-bit platforms (CONFIG_64BIT=y):
562 Merrifield/Moorefield MID devices
563 Goldfish (mostly Android emulator)
565 If you have one of these systems, or if you want to build a
566 generic distribution kernel, say Y here - otherwise say N.
568 # This is an alphabetically sorted list of 64 bit extended platforms
569 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
571 bool "Numascale NumaChip"
573 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
576 depends on X86_X2APIC
577 depends on PCI_MMCONFIG
579 Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to
580 enable more than ~168 cores.
581 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
585 select HYPERVISOR_GUEST
587 depends on X86_64 && PCI
588 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
591 Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
592 supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option
593 if you have one of these machines.
596 bool "SGI Ultraviolet"
598 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
601 depends on KEXEC_CORE
602 depends on X86_X2APIC
605 This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems.
606 If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
609 bool "Intel Z34xx/Z35xx MID platform support"
610 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
611 depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
613 depends on X86_64 || (EXPERT && PCI_GOANY)
614 depends on X86_IO_APIC
619 Select to build a kernel capable of supporting 64-bit Intel MID
620 (Mobile Internet Device) platform systems which do not have
621 the PCI legacy interfaces.
623 The only supported devices are the 22nm Merrified (Z34xx)
624 and Moorefield (Z35xx) SoC used in the Intel Edison board and
625 a small number of Android devices such as the Asus Zenfone 2,
626 Asus FonePad 8 and Dell Venue 7.
628 If you are building for a PC class system or non-MID tablet
629 SoCs like Bay Trail (Z36xx/Z37xx), say N here.
631 Intel MID platforms are based on an Intel processor and chipset which
632 consume less power than most of the x86 derivatives.
635 bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)"
636 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
638 Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily
639 for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android
640 Goldfish emulator say N here.
642 # Following is an alphabetically sorted list of 32 bit extended platforms
643 # Please maintain the alphabetic order if and when there are additions
646 bool "CE4100 TV platform"
648 depends on PCI_GODIRECT
649 depends on X86_IO_APIC
651 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
652 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
654 select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
656 Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC.
657 This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop
658 boxes and media devices.
660 config X86_INTEL_QUARK
661 bool "Intel Quark platform support"
663 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
664 depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
668 depends on X86_IO_APIC
673 Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC.
674 Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino
675 compatible Intel Galileo.
678 bool "RDC R-321x SoC"
680 depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
682 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
684 This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known
686 If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here.
688 config X86_INTEL_LPSS
689 bool "Intel Low Power Subsystem Support"
690 depends on X86 && ACPI && PCI
695 Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as
696 found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables
697 things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol
698 which are needed by the LPSS peripheral drivers.
700 config X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE
701 bool "AMD ACPI2Platform devices support"
706 Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device
707 such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets.
708 I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is
709 implemented under PINCTRL subsystem.
712 tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms"
715 This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC
716 platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of
717 MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal
718 and power. Drivers may query the availability of this device to
719 determine if they need the sideband in order to work on these
720 platforms. The sideband is available on the following SoC products.
721 This list is not meant to be exclusive.
726 You should say Y if you are running a kernel on one of these SoC's.
728 config IOSF_MBI_DEBUG
729 bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs"
730 depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS
732 Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR,
733 MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from
734 different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device
735 state information for debug and analysis. As this is a general access
736 mechanism, users of this option would have specific knowledge of the
737 device they want to access.
739 If you don't require the option or are in doubt, say N.
741 config X86_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
743 # MCE code calls memory_failure():
745 # On 32-bit this adds too big of NODES_SHIFT and we run out of page flags:
746 # On 32-bit SPARSEMEM adds too big of SECTIONS_WIDTH:
747 depends on X86_64 || !SPARSEMEM
748 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
751 tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module"
754 The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support
755 to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is
756 needed to do so, which is what this module does at
759 This is only for Iris machines from EuroBraille.
763 config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
765 prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output"
768 Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
769 is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
770 caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
771 at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead.
773 If in doubt, say "Y".
775 menuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST
776 bool "Linux guest support"
778 Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper-
779 visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform
782 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
783 disabled, and Linux guest support won't be built in.
788 bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
789 depends on HAVE_STATIC_CALL
791 This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
792 under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
793 over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor
794 the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger.
800 config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
801 bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
802 depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
804 Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if
805 a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
807 config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
808 bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
809 depends on PARAVIRT && SMP
811 Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
812 spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
813 (for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning).
815 It has a minimal impact on native kernels and gives a nice performance
816 benefit on paravirtualized KVM / Xen kernels.
818 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y.
820 config X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
823 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
826 bool "KVM Guest support (including kvmclock)"
828 select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
829 select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
830 select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
833 This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
834 hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead
835 of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the
836 underlying device model, the host provides the guest with
837 timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time
839 config ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
841 prompt "Disable host haltpoll when loading haltpoll driver"
843 If virtualized under KVM, disable host haltpoll.
846 bool "Support for running PVH guests"
848 This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines
849 as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
851 config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
852 bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting"
855 Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time
856 accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with
857 the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for
858 that, there can be a small performance impact.
860 If in doubt, say N here.
862 config PARAVIRT_CLOCK
865 config JAILHOUSE_GUEST
866 bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support"
867 depends on X86_64 && PCI
870 This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root
871 cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start
872 Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell.
875 bool "ACRN Guest support"
877 select X86_HV_CALLBACK_VECTOR
879 This option allows to run Linux as guest in the ACRN hypervisor. ACRN is
880 a flexible, lightweight reference open-source hypervisor, built with
881 real-time and safety-criticality in mind. It is built for embedded
882 IOT with small footprint and real-time features. More details can be
883 found in https://projectacrn.org/.
885 config INTEL_TDX_GUEST
886 bool "Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) - Guest Support"
887 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL
888 depends on X86_X2APIC
891 select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
892 select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
894 select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
896 Support running as a guest under Intel TDX. Without this support,
897 the guest kernel can not boot or run under TDX.
898 TDX includes memory encryption and integrity capabilities
899 which protect the confidentiality and integrity of guest
900 memory contents and CPU state. TDX guests are protected from
901 some attacks from the VMM.
903 endif # HYPERVISOR_GUEST
905 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu"
909 prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
911 Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
912 time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
914 HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
915 The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
916 systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
917 as it is off-chip. The interface used is documented
918 in the HPET spec, revision 1.
920 You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be
921 activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
922 Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
924 Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
926 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
928 depends on HPET_TIMER && (RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y)
930 # Mark as expert because too many people got it wrong.
931 # The code disables itself when not needed.
934 select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK
935 bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT
937 Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y
938 here unless you have verified that your setup is not
939 affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP
943 bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support"
946 depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB
948 Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron
949 GART based hardware IOMMUs.
951 The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access
952 limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed
953 for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
955 Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via
956 the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option.
958 In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed:
959 there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a
960 32-bit limited device.
964 config BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT
967 If true, at least one selected framebuffer driver can take advantage
968 of VESA video modes set at an early boot stage via the vga= parameter.
971 bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes"
972 depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL
973 select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
975 Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
979 # The maximum number of CPUs supported:
981 # The main config value is NR_CPUS, which defaults to NR_CPUS_DEFAULT,
982 # and which can be configured interactively in the
983 # [NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN ... NR_CPUS_RANGE_END] range.
985 # The ranges are different on 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, depending on
986 # hardware capabilities and scalability features of the kernel.
988 # ( If MAXSMP is enabled we just use the highest possible value and disable
989 # interactive configuration. )
992 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN
994 default NR_CPUS_RANGE_END if MAXSMP
998 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
1004 config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
1007 default 8192 if SMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
1008 default 512 if SMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
1011 config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
1017 config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
1020 default 8192 if MAXSMP
1025 int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
1026 range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
1027 default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
1029 This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
1030 kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum
1031 supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The
1032 minimum value which makes sense is 2.
1034 This is purely to save memory: each supported CPU adds about 8KB
1035 to the kernel image.
1037 config SCHED_CLUSTER
1038 bool "Cluster scheduler support"
1042 Cluster scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
1043 making when dealing with machines that have clusters of CPUs.
1044 Cluster usually means a couple of CPUs which are placed closely
1045 by sharing mid-level caches, last-level cache tags or internal
1053 prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
1056 Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
1057 making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
1058 increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
1060 config SCHED_MC_PRIO
1061 bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support"
1063 select X86_INTEL_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_INTEL
1064 select X86_AMD_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_AMD && ACPI
1068 Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a
1069 core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows
1070 certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running
1071 single threaded workloads) than others.
1073 Enabling this kernel feature teaches the scheduler about
1074 the TBM3 (aka ITMT) priority order of the CPU cores and adjusts the
1075 scheduler's CPU selection logic accordingly, so that higher
1076 overall system performance can be achieved.
1078 This feature will have no effect on CPUs without this feature.
1080 If unsure say Y here.
1084 depends on !SMP && X86_LOCAL_APIC
1087 bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI
1089 depends on X86_32 && !SMP
1091 A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
1092 integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
1093 system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to
1094 enable and use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't
1095 have a local APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at
1096 all. The local APIC supports CPU-generated self-interrupts (timer,
1097 performance counters), and the NMI watchdog which detects hard
1100 config X86_UP_IOAPIC
1101 bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
1102 depends on X86_UP_APIC
1104 An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
1105 SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most
1106 SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one.
1108 If you have a single-CPU system with an IO-APIC, you can say Y here
1109 to use it. If you say Y here even though your machine doesn't have
1110 an IO-APIC, then the kernel will still run with no slowdown at all.
1112 config X86_LOCAL_APIC
1114 depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_UP_APIC || PCI_MSI
1115 select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
1117 config ACPI_MADT_WAKEUP
1122 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
1126 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_UP_IOAPIC
1128 config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
1129 bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
1130 depends on X86_IO_APIC
1132 This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of
1133 spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded
1134 interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of
1135 superfluous "boot interrupts" cannot be disabled.
1137 Some chipsets generate a legacy INTx "boot IRQ" when the IRQ
1138 entry in the chipset's IO-APIC is masked (as, e.g. the RT
1139 kernel does during interrupt handling). On chipsets where this
1140 boot IRQ generation cannot be disabled, this workaround keeps
1141 the original IRQ line masked so that only the equivalent "boot
1142 IRQ" is delivered to the CPUs. The workaround also tells the
1143 kernel to set up the IRQ handler on the boot IRQ line. In this
1144 way only one interrupt is delivered to the kernel. Otherwise
1145 the spurious second interrupt may cause the kernel to bring
1146 down (vital) interrupt lines.
1148 Only affects "broken" chipsets. Interrupt sharing may be
1149 increased on these systems.
1152 bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
1153 select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
1156 Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
1157 kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
1158 The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
1159 ranging from warning messages to halting the machine.
1161 config X86_MCELOG_LEGACY
1162 bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device"
1165 Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog
1166 userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation
1169 config X86_MCE_INTEL
1171 prompt "Intel MCE features"
1172 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
1174 Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
1175 the thermal monitor.
1179 prompt "AMD MCE features"
1180 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
1182 Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
1183 the DRAM Error Threshold.
1185 config X86_ANCIENT_MCE
1186 bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks"
1187 depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
1189 Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip
1190 systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command
1193 config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD
1194 depends on X86_MCE_AMD || X86_MCE_INTEL
1197 config X86_MCE_INJECT
1198 depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS
1199 tristate "Machine check injector support"
1201 Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes.
1202 If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel
1203 QA it is safe to say n.
1205 source "arch/x86/events/Kconfig"
1207 config X86_LEGACY_VM86
1208 bool "Legacy VM86 support"
1211 This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086
1212 mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode.
1214 Some very old versions of X and/or vbetool require this option
1215 for user mode setting. Similarly, DOSEMU will use it if
1216 available to accelerate real mode DOS programs. However, any
1217 recent version of DOSEMU, X, or vbetool should be fully
1218 functional even without kernel VM86 support, as they will all
1219 fall back to software emulation. Nevertheless, if you are using
1220 a 16-bit DOS program where 16-bit performance matters, vm86
1221 mode might be faster than emulation and you might want to
1224 Note that any app that works on a 64-bit kernel is unlikely to
1225 need this option, as 64-bit kernels don't, and can't, support
1226 V8086 mode. This option is also unrelated to 16-bit protected
1227 mode and is not needed to run most 16-bit programs under Wine.
1229 Enabling this option increases the complexity of the kernel
1230 and slows down exception handling a tiny bit.
1232 If unsure, say N here.
1236 default X86_LEGACY_VM86
1239 bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT
1241 depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
1243 This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit
1244 protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling
1245 this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text
1246 plus 16K runtime memory on x86-64,
1250 depends on X86_16BIT && X86_32
1254 depends on X86_16BIT && X86_64
1256 config X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION
1257 bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT
1261 This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling
1262 it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except
1263 that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program
1264 tries to use a vsyscall. With this option set to N, offending
1265 programs will just segfault, citing addresses of the form
1268 This option is required by many programs built before 2013, and
1269 care should be used even with newer programs if set to N.
1271 Disabling this option saves about 7K of kernel size and
1272 possibly 4K of additional runtime pagetable memory.
1274 config X86_IOPL_IOPERM
1275 bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation"
1278 This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary
1279 for legacy applications.
1281 Legacy IOPL support is an overbroad mechanism which allows user
1282 space aside of accessing all 65536 I/O ports also to disable
1283 interrupts. To gain this access the caller needs CAP_SYS_RAWIO
1284 capabilities and permission from potentially active security
1287 The emulation restricts the functionality of the syscall to
1288 only allowing the full range I/O port access, but prevents the
1289 ability to disable interrupts from user space which would be
1290 granted if the hardware IOPL mechanism would be used.
1293 tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
1296 This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of
1297 the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does
1298 not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode
1299 is used to set the BIOS and power saving options on Toshiba portables.
1301 For information on utilities to make use of this driver see the
1302 Toshiba Linux utilities web site at:
1303 <http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/>.
1305 Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Toshiba portable.
1308 config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
1309 bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
1312 This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done
1313 in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on
1314 some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which
1315 this config is intended, is when reboot ends with a stalled/hung
1318 Currently, the only fixup is for the Geode machines using
1319 CS5530A and CS5536 chipsets and the RDC R-321x SoC.
1321 Say Y if you want to enable the fixup. Currently, it's safe to
1322 enable this option even if you don't need it.
1327 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL
1328 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 if CPU_SUP_AMD
1330 config MICROCODE_INITRD32
1332 depends on MICROCODE && X86_32 && BLK_DEV_INITRD
1334 config MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING
1335 bool "Late microcode loading (DANGEROUS)"
1337 depends on MICROCODE && SMP
1339 Loading microcode late, when the system is up and executing instructions
1340 is a tricky business and should be avoided if possible. Just the sequence
1341 of synchronizing all cores and SMT threads is one fragile dance which does
1342 not guarantee that cores might not softlock after the loading. Therefore,
1343 use this at your own risk. Late loading taints the kernel unless the
1344 microcode header indicates that it is safe for late loading via the
1345 minimal revision check. This minimal revision check can be enforced on
1346 the kernel command line with "microcode.minrev=Y".
1348 config MICROCODE_LATE_FORCE_MINREV
1349 bool "Enforce late microcode loading minimal revision check"
1351 depends on MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING
1353 To prevent that users load microcode late which modifies already
1354 in use features, newer microcode patches have a minimum revision field
1355 in the microcode header, which tells the kernel which minimum
1356 revision must be active in the CPU to safely load that new microcode
1357 late into the running system. If disabled the check will not
1358 be enforced but the kernel will be tainted when the minimal
1359 revision check fails.
1361 This minimal revision check can also be controlled via the
1362 "microcode.minrev" parameter on the kernel command line.
1367 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
1369 This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
1370 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with
1371 major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
1372 MSR accesses are directed to a specific CPU on multi-processor
1376 tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
1378 This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
1379 be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device
1380 with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
1384 bool "High Memory Support"
1387 Linux can use up to 4 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
1388 However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
1389 Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of
1390 physical memory, not all of it can be "permanently mapped" by the
1391 kernel. The physical memory that's not permanently mapped is called
1394 If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
1395 more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
1396 choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
1397 split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
1398 space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
1399 by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
1402 If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then
1408 prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT
1412 Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
1414 If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
1415 physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available
1416 as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly
1417 than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first.
1418 Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range
1419 available to user programs, making the address space there
1420 tighter. Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split
1421 will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only
1424 If you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, leave this
1428 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
1429 config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1431 bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
1433 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
1434 config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1436 bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
1438 bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
1443 default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
1444 default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
1445 default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
1446 default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G
1454 bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
1455 depends on X86_32 && X86_HAVE_PAE
1456 select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
1458 PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
1459 larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
1460 has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
1461 consumes more pagetable space per process.
1463 config X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES
1467 Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel
1468 linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise
1469 supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing
1470 that we have them enabled.
1472 config X86_CPA_STATISTICS
1473 bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute"
1476 Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which
1477 helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge
1478 page mappings when mapping protections are changed.
1480 config X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
1481 select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED
1482 select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
1485 config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
1486 bool "AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support"
1487 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_AMD
1489 select DMA_COHERENT_POOL
1490 select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1491 select INSTRUCTION_DECODER
1492 select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
1493 select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
1494 select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
1495 select CRYPTO_LIB_AESGCM
1497 Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory.
1498 This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory
1501 # Common NUMA Features
1503 bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
1506 select USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
1507 select OF_NUMA if OF
1509 Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support.
1511 The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
1512 local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
1513 NUMA awareness to the kernel.
1515 For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7
1516 (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.
1518 Otherwise, you should say N.
1522 prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
1523 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
1525 Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
1526 you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to
1527 read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge
1528 of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA instead,
1529 which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
1531 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
1533 prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
1534 depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
1537 Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
1540 int "Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)" if !MAXSMP
1542 default "10" if MAXSMP
1543 default "6" if X86_64
1547 Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target
1548 system. Increases memory reserved to accommodate various tables.
1550 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
1552 depends on X86_32 && !NUMA
1554 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
1556 select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
1557 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
1558 select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP if X86_64
1560 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
1561 def_bool X86_64 || (NUMA && X86_32)
1563 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
1565 depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE && ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
1567 config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
1568 bool "Enable sysfs memory/probe interface"
1569 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
1571 This option enables a sysfs memory/probe interface for testing.
1572 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst for more information.
1573 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1575 config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT
1577 depends on X86_64 && PROC_KCORE
1579 config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
1582 default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64
1584 config X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE
1587 config X86_PMEM_LEGACY
1588 tristate "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory"
1589 depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
1591 select X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE
1592 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA
1595 Treat memory marked using the non-standard e820 type of 12 as used
1596 by the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP reference BIOS as protected memory.
1597 The kernel will offer these regions to the 'pmem' driver so
1598 they can be used for persistent storage.
1602 config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1603 bool "Check for low memory corruption"
1605 Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which
1606 is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the
1607 configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by
1608 setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command
1609 line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60
1610 seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and
1611 memory_corruption_check_period parameters in
1612 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst to adjust this.
1614 When enabled with the default parameters, this option has
1615 almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount
1616 of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption
1617 and prevents it from affecting the running system.
1619 It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable
1620 BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory,
1621 you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that
1624 config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK
1625 bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
1626 depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
1629 Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
1632 config MATH_EMULATION
1634 depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
1635 prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN)
1637 Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point
1638 operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have
1639 a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added
1640 a 487DX or 387, respectively. (The messages during boot time can
1641 give you some hints here ["man dmesg"].) Everyone needs either a
1642 coprocessor or this emulation.
1644 If you don't have a math coprocessor, you need to say Y here; if you
1645 say Y here even though you have a coprocessor, the coprocessor will
1646 be used nevertheless. (This behavior can be changed with the kernel
1647 command line option "no387", which comes handy if your coprocessor
1648 is broken. Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot
1649 loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at
1650 boot time.) This means that it is a good idea to say Y here if you
1651 intend to use this kernel on different machines.
1653 More information about the internals of the Linux math coprocessor
1654 emulation can be found in <file:arch/x86/math-emu/README>.
1656 If you are not sure, say Y; apart from resulting in a 66 KB bigger
1657 kernel, it won't hurt.
1661 prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT
1663 On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
1664 the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
1665 processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
1666 a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining
1667 allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer
1668 before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance
1669 of image write operations 2.5 times or more. Saying Y here creates a
1670 /proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your processor's
1671 MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this.
1673 This code has a reasonably generic interface so that similar
1674 control registers on other processors can be easily supported
1677 The Cyrix 6x86, 6x86MX and M II processors have Address Range
1678 Registers (ARRs) which provide a similar functionality to MTRRs. For
1679 these, the ARRs are used to emulate the MTRRs.
1680 The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two
1681 MTRRs. The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing
1682 write-combining. All of these processors are supported by this code
1683 and it makes sense to say Y here if you have one of them.
1685 Saying Y here also fixes a problem with buggy SMP BIOSes which only
1686 set the MTRRs for the boot CPU and not for the secondary CPUs. This
1687 can lead to all sorts of problems, so it's good to say Y here.
1689 You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll
1690 just add about 9 KB to your kernel.
1692 See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/mtrr.rst> for more information.
1694 config MTRR_SANITIZER
1696 prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
1699 Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can
1700 add writeback entries.
1702 Can be disabled with disable_mtrr_cleanup on the kernel command line.
1703 The largest mtrr entry size for a continuous block can be set with
1708 config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
1709 int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)"
1712 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1714 Enable mtrr cleanup default value
1716 config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
1717 int "MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7)"
1720 depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
1722 mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via
1723 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line.
1727 prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT
1729 select ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2
1731 Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control.
1733 PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more
1734 flexible than MTRRs.
1736 Say N here if you see bootup problems (boot crash, boot hang,
1737 spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver.
1743 prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT
1745 User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in
1746 some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is
1747 issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are
1748 executed in user mode. These instructions unnecessarily expose
1749 information about the hardware state.
1751 The vast majority of applications do not use these instructions.
1752 For the very few that do, software emulation is provided in
1753 specific cases in protected and virtual-8086 modes. Emulated
1757 # GCC >= 9 and binutils >= 2.29
1758 # Retpoline check to work around https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93654
1760 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e0b89df2e0f0130881bf6c39bf31d7f6aac00e0f
1761 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dfcf69770bc522b9e411c66454934a37c1f35332
1762 def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || \
1763 (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \
1769 CET features configured (Shadow stack or IBT)
1771 config X86_KERNEL_IBT
1772 prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking"
1774 depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && HAVE_OBJTOOL
1775 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
1776 depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000
1780 Build the kernel with support for Indirect Branch Tracking, a
1781 hardware support course-grain forward-edge Control Flow Integrity
1782 protection. It enforces that all indirect calls must land on
1783 an ENDBR instruction, as such, the compiler will instrument the
1784 code with them to make this happen.
1786 In addition to building the kernel with IBT, seal all functions that
1787 are not indirect call targets, avoiding them ever becoming one.
1789 This requires LTO like objtool runs and will slow down the build. It
1790 does significantly reduce the number of ENDBR instructions in the
1793 config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
1794 prompt "Memory Protection Keys"
1796 # Note: only available in 64-bit mode
1797 depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
1798 select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
1799 select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
1801 Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing
1802 page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
1803 page tables when an application changes protection domains.
1805 For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
1809 config ARCH_PKEY_BITS
1814 prompt "TSX enable mode"
1815 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
1816 default X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF
1818 Intel's TSX (Transactional Synchronization Extensions) feature
1819 allows to optimize locking protocols through lock elision which
1820 can lead to a noticeable performance boost.
1822 On the other hand it has been shown that TSX can be exploited
1823 to form side channel attacks (e.g. TAA) and chances are there
1824 will be more of those attacks discovered in the future.
1826 Therefore TSX is not enabled by default (aka tsx=off). An admin
1827 might override this decision by tsx=on the command line parameter.
1828 Even with TSX enabled, the kernel will attempt to enable the best
1829 possible TAA mitigation setting depending on the microcode available
1830 for the particular machine.
1832 This option allows to set the default tsx mode between tsx=on, =off
1833 and =auto. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more
1836 Say off if not sure, auto if TSX is in use but it should be used on safe
1837 platforms or on if TSX is in use and the security aspect of tsx is not
1840 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF
1843 TSX is disabled if possible - equals to tsx=off command line parameter.
1845 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON
1848 TSX is always enabled on TSX capable HW - equals the tsx=on command
1851 config X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO
1854 TSX is enabled on TSX capable HW that is believed to be safe against
1855 side channel attacks- equals the tsx=auto command line parameter.
1859 bool "Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)"
1860 depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_X2APIC
1861 select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256
1863 select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA
1866 Intel(R) Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions
1867 that can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code
1868 and data, referred to as enclaves. An enclave's private memory can
1869 only be accessed by code running within the enclave. Accesses from
1870 outside the enclave, including other enclaves, are disallowed by
1875 config X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
1876 bool "X86 userspace shadow stack"
1879 select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
1880 select ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK
1883 Shadow stack protection is a hardware feature that detects function
1884 return address corruption. This helps mitigate ROP attacks.
1885 Applications must be enabled to use it, and old userspace does not
1886 get protection "for free".
1888 CPUs supporting shadow stacks were first released in 2020.
1890 See Documentation/arch/x86/shstk.rst for more information.
1894 config INTEL_TDX_HOST
1895 bool "Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) host support"
1896 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
1898 depends on KVM_INTEL
1899 depends on X86_X2APIC
1900 select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
1901 depends on CONTIG_ALLOC
1902 depends on !KEXEC_CORE
1905 Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious
1906 host and certain physical attacks. This option enables necessary TDX
1907 support in the host kernel to run confidential VMs.
1912 bool "EFI runtime service support"
1915 select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
1916 select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
1917 select EFI_RUNTIME_MAP if KEXEC_CORE
1919 This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
1920 available (such as the EFI variable services).
1922 This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
1923 In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
1924 at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
1925 of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
1926 resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
1930 bool "EFI stub support"
1934 This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
1935 by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.
1937 See Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst for more information.
1939 config EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL
1940 bool "EFI handover protocol (DEPRECATED)"
1944 Select this in order to include support for the deprecated EFI
1945 handover protocol, which defines alternative entry points into the
1946 EFI stub. This is a practice that has no basis in the UEFI
1947 specification, and requires a priori knowledge on the part of the
1948 bootloader about Linux/x86 specific ways of passing the command line
1949 and initrd, and where in memory those assets may be loaded.
1951 If in doubt, say Y. Even though the corresponding support is not
1952 present in upstream GRUB or other bootloaders, most distros build
1953 GRUB with numerous downstream patches applied, and may rely on the
1954 handover protocol as as result.
1957 bool "EFI mixed-mode support"
1958 depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64
1960 Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted
1961 on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit
1964 Note that it is not possible to boot a mixed-mode enabled
1965 kernel via the EFI boot stub - a bootloader that supports
1966 the EFI handover protocol must be used.
1970 config EFI_RUNTIME_MAP
1971 bool "Export EFI runtime maps to sysfs" if EXPERT
1974 Export EFI runtime memory regions to /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map.
1975 That memory map is required by the 2nd kernel to set up EFI virtual
1976 mappings after kexec, but can also be used for debugging purposes.
1978 See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map.
1980 source "kernel/Kconfig.hz"
1982 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC
1985 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
1988 config ARCH_SELECTS_KEXEC_FILE
1990 depends on KEXEC_FILE
1991 select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA
1993 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
1996 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG
1999 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_SIG_FORCE
2002 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG
2005 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_JUMP
2008 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER
2011 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP
2012 def_bool X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
2014 config ARCH_DEFAULT_CRASH_DUMP
2017 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_HOTPLUG
2020 config ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION
2021 def_bool CRASH_RESERVE
2023 config PHYSICAL_START
2024 hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP)
2027 This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
2029 If the kernel is not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then bzImage
2030 will decompress itself to above physical address and run from there.
2031 Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where it has been loaded
2032 by the boot loader. The only exception is if it is loaded below the
2033 above physical address, in which case it will relocate itself there.
2035 In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
2036 as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
2037 (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
2038 address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
2039 to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
2040 vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
2041 to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
2042 (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
2044 So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump,
2045 leave the value here unchanged to 0x1000000 and set
2046 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux
2047 for capturing the crash dump change this value to start of
2048 the reserved region. In other words, it can be set based on
2049 the "X" value as specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM"
2050 command line boot parameter passed to the panic-ed
2051 kernel. Please take a look at Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
2052 for more details about crash dumps.
2054 Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
2055 one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
2056 as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
2057 gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
2058 is present because there are users out there who continue to use
2059 vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
2062 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
2065 bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
2068 This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
2069 so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
2070 The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
2071 but are discarded at runtime.
2073 One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
2074 must live at a different physical address than the primary
2077 Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
2078 it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address
2079 (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is used as the minimum location.
2081 config RANDOMIZE_BASE
2082 bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)"
2083 depends on RELOCATABLE
2086 In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR),
2087 this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image
2088 is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel
2089 image is mapped, as a security feature that deters exploit
2090 attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel
2093 On 64-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are
2094 randomized separately. The physical address will be anywhere
2095 between 16MB and the top of physical memory (up to 64TB). The
2096 virtual address will be randomized from 16MB up to 1GB (9 bits
2097 of entropy). Note that this also reduces the memory space
2098 available to kernel modules from 1.5GB to 1GB.
2100 On 32-bit, the kernel physical and virtual addresses are
2101 randomized together. They will be randomized from 16MB up to
2102 512MB (8 bits of entropy).
2104 Entropy is generated using the RDRAND instruction if it is
2105 supported. If RDTSC is supported, its value is mixed into
2106 the entropy pool as well. If neither RDRAND nor RDTSC are
2107 supported, then entropy is read from the i8254 timer. The
2108 usable entropy is limited by the kernel being built using
2109 2GB addressing, and that PHYSICAL_ALIGN must be at a
2110 minimum of 2MB. As a result, only 10 bits of entropy are
2111 theoretically possible, but the implementations are further
2112 limited due to memory layouts.
2116 # Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support
2117 config X86_NEED_RELOCS
2119 depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE || (X86_32 && RELOCATABLE)
2120 select ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS
2122 config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
2123 hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
2125 range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32
2126 range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64
2128 This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
2129 where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
2130 address which meets above alignment restriction.
2132 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
2133 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest
2134 address aligned to above value and run from there.
2136 If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
2137 CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time
2138 load address and decompress itself to the address it has been
2139 compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is
2140 compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the
2141 end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting
2142 above alignment restrictions.
2144 On 32-bit this value must be a multiple of 0x2000. On 64-bit
2145 this value must be a multiple of 0x200000.
2147 Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
2149 config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
2150 bool "Randomize the kernel memory sections"
2152 depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE
2153 default RANDOMIZE_BASE
2155 Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections
2156 (physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature
2157 makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable.
2159 The order of allocations remains unchanged. Entropy is generated in
2160 the same way as RANDOMIZE_BASE. Current implementation in the optimal
2161 configuration have in average 30,000 different possible virtual
2162 addresses for each memory section.
2166 config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING
2167 hex "Physical memory mapping padding" if EXPERT
2168 depends on RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
2169 default "0xa" if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
2171 range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
2174 Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical
2175 memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful
2176 for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for
2177 address randomization.
2179 If unsure, leave at the default value.
2181 config ADDRESS_MASKING
2182 bool "Linear Address Masking support"
2184 depends on COMPILE_TEST || !CPU_MITIGATIONS # wait for LASS
2186 Linear Address Masking (LAM) modifies the checking that is applied
2187 to 64-bit linear addresses, allowing software to use of the
2188 untranslated address bits for metadata.
2190 The capability can be used for efficient address sanitizers (ASAN)
2191 implementation and for optimizations in JITs.
2199 prompt "Workaround for glibc 2.3.2 / 2.3.3 (released in year 2003/2004)"
2200 depends on COMPAT_32
2202 Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
2203 presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address
2204 indicated in its segment table.
2206 The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a
2207 and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and
2208 49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468. Glibc 2.3.3 is
2209 the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9
2210 contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2".
2212 The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying:
2213 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
2215 Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot
2216 option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely.
2217 This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance.
2219 If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you
2220 are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc.
2223 prompt "vsyscall table for legacy applications"
2225 default LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY
2227 Legacy user code that does not know how to find the vDSO expects
2228 to be able to issue three syscalls by calling fixed addresses in
2229 kernel space. Since this location is not randomized with ASLR,
2230 it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation.
2232 This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command
2233 line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|xonly|none]. Emulate mode
2234 is deprecated and can only be enabled using the kernel command
2237 On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no
2238 static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty
2239 to improve security.
2241 If unsure, select "Emulate execution only".
2243 config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY
2244 bool "Emulate execution only"
2246 The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall
2247 address mapping and does not allow reads. This
2248 configuration is recommended when userspace might use the
2249 legacy vsyscall area but support for legacy binary
2250 instrumentation of legacy code is not needed. It mitigates
2251 certain uses of the vsyscall area as an ASLR-bypassing
2254 config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE
2257 There will be no vsyscall mapping at all. This will
2258 eliminate any risk of ASLR bypass due to the vsyscall
2259 fixed address mapping. Attempts to use the vsyscalls
2260 will be reported to dmesg, so that either old or
2261 malicious userspace programs can be identified.
2266 bool "Built-in kernel command line"
2268 Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
2269 build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
2270 necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
2271 kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is,
2272 to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.)
2274 To compile command line arguments into the kernel,
2275 set this option to 'Y', then fill in the
2276 boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
2278 Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded)
2279 should leave this option set to 'N'.
2282 string "Built-in kernel command string"
2283 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
2286 Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
2287 image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a
2288 command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
2289 form the full kernel command line, when the system boots.
2291 However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to
2292 change this behavior.
2294 In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided
2295 by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root
2298 config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
2299 bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
2300 depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != ""
2302 Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
2303 command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
2305 This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should
2306 be set to 'N' under normal conditions.
2308 config MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
2309 bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT
2312 Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86
2313 Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system
2314 call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as
2315 DOSEMU or some Wine programs. It is also used by some very old
2316 threading libraries.
2318 Enabling this feature adds a small amount of overhead to
2319 context switches and increases the low-level kernel attack
2320 surface. Disabling it removes the modify_ldt(2) system call.
2322 Saying 'N' here may make sense for embedded or server kernels.
2324 config STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE
2325 bool "Enforce strict size checking for sigaltstack"
2326 depends on DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
2328 For historical reasons MINSIGSTKSZ is a constant which became
2329 already too small with AVX512 support. Add a mechanism to
2330 enforce strict checking of the sigaltstack size against the
2331 real size of the FPU frame. This option enables the check
2332 by default. It can also be controlled via the kernel command
2333 line option 'strict_sas_size' independent of this config
2334 switch. Enabling it might break existing applications which
2335 allocate a too small sigaltstack but 'work' because they
2336 never get a signal delivered.
2338 Say 'N' unless you want to really enforce this check.
2340 config CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT
2341 bool "Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time"
2343 depends on !RUST || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800
2346 Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time. If enabled,
2347 this is the same as booting with "cfi=auto". If disabled,
2348 this is the same as booting with "cfi=kcfi".
2350 source "kernel/livepatch/Kconfig"
2352 config X86_BUS_LOCK_DETECT
2353 bool "Split Lock Detect and Bus Lock Detect support"
2354 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD
2357 Enable Split Lock Detect and Bus Lock Detect functionalities.
2358 See <file:Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst> for more information.
2362 config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS
2363 def_bool $(success,echo 'int __seg_fs fs; int __seg_gs gs;' | $(CC) -x c - -S -o /dev/null)
2364 depends on CC_IS_GCC
2367 # -fsanitize=kernel-address (KASAN) and -fsanitize=thread (KCSAN)
2368 # are incompatible with named address spaces with GCC < 13.3
2369 # (see GCC PR sanitizer/111736 and also PR sanitizer/115172).
2372 config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS
2374 depends on !(KASAN || KCSAN) || GCC_VERSION >= 130300
2375 depends on !(UBSAN_BOOL && KASAN) || GCC_VERSION >= 140200
2377 config USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT
2378 def_bool CC_HAS_NAMED_AS
2379 depends on CC_HAS_NAMED_AS_FIXED_SANITIZERS
2382 def_bool $(cc-option,-mharden-sls=all)
2384 config CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK
2385 def_bool $(cc-option,-mfunction-return=thunk-extern)
2387 config CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING
2388 def_bool $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=16,16)
2390 config CC_HAS_KCFI_ARITY
2391 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi -fsanitize-kcfi-arity)
2392 depends on CC_IS_CLANG && !RUST
2394 config FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI
2396 default 59 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B
2397 default 27 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B
2398 default 11 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B
2399 default 3 if FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_8B
2402 # Basically: FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT - 5*CFI_CLANG
2403 # except Kconfig can't do arithmetic :/
2404 config FUNCTION_PADDING_BYTES
2406 default FUNCTION_PADDING_CFI if CFI_CLANG
2407 default FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
2411 depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && OBJTOOL
2412 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B
2416 depends on X86_KERNEL_IBT && CFI_CLANG && MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
2421 depends on FINEIBT && CC_HAS_KCFI_ARITY
2423 config HAVE_CALL_THUNKS
2425 depends on CC_HAS_ENTRY_PADDING && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && OBJTOOL
2431 config PREFIX_SYMBOLS
2433 depends on CALL_PADDING && !CFI_CLANG
2435 menuconfig CPU_MITIGATIONS
2436 bool "Mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities"
2439 Say Y here to enable options which enable mitigations for hardware
2440 vulnerabilities (usually related to speculative execution).
2441 Mitigations can be disabled or restricted to SMT systems at runtime
2442 via the "mitigations" kernel parameter.
2444 If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. This CANNOT be
2445 overridden at runtime.
2447 Say 'Y', unless you really know what you are doing.
2451 config MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
2452 bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode"
2454 depends on (X86_64 || X86_PAE)
2456 This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by
2457 ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped
2460 See Documentation/arch/x86/pti.rst for more details.
2462 config MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
2463 bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel"
2464 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL
2467 Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against
2468 kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect
2469 branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
2470 support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.
2472 config MITIGATION_RETHUNK
2473 bool "Enable return-thunks"
2474 depends on MITIGATION_RETPOLINE && CC_HAS_RETURN_THUNK
2475 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL
2478 Compile the kernel with the return-thunks compiler option to guard
2479 against kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding return speculation.
2480 Requires a compiler with -mfunction-return=thunk-extern
2481 support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.
2483 config MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
2484 bool "Enable UNRET on kernel entry"
2485 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && MITIGATION_RETHUNK && X86_64
2488 Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=unret mitigation.
2490 config MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING
2491 bool "Mitigate RSB underflow with call depth tracking"
2492 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && HAVE_CALL_THUNKS
2493 select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
2497 Compile the kernel with call depth tracking to mitigate the Intel
2498 SKL Return-Stack-Buffer (RSB) underflow issue. The mitigation is off
2499 by default and needs to be enabled on the kernel command line via the
2500 retbleed=stuff option. For non-affected systems the overhead of this
2501 option is marginal as the call depth tracking is using run-time
2502 generated call thunks in a compiler generated padding area and call
2503 patching. This increases text size by ~5%. For non affected systems
2504 this space is unused. On affected SKL systems this results in a
2505 significant performance gain over the IBRS mitigation.
2507 config CALL_THUNKS_DEBUG
2508 bool "Enable call thunks and call depth tracking debugging"
2509 depends on MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING
2510 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_32B
2513 Enable call/ret counters for imbalance detection and build in
2514 a noisy dmesg about callthunks generation and call patching for
2515 trouble shooting. The debug prints need to be enabled on the
2516 kernel command line with 'debug-callthunks'.
2517 Only enable this when you are debugging call thunks as this
2518 creates a noticeable runtime overhead. If unsure say N.
2520 config MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
2521 bool "Enable IBPB on kernel entry"
2522 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64
2525 Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=ibpb and
2526 spec_rstack_overflow={ibpb,ibpb-vmexit} mitigations.
2528 config MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
2529 bool "Enable IBRS on kernel entry"
2530 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64
2533 Compile the kernel with support for the spectre_v2=ibrs mitigation.
2534 This mitigates both spectre_v2 and retbleed at great cost to
2537 config MITIGATION_SRSO
2538 bool "Mitigate speculative RAS overflow on AMD"
2539 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64 && MITIGATION_RETHUNK
2542 Enable the SRSO mitigation needed on AMD Zen1-4 machines.
2544 config MITIGATION_SLS
2545 bool "Mitigate Straight-Line-Speculation"
2546 depends on CC_HAS_SLS && X86_64
2547 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_OBJTOOL
2550 Compile the kernel with straight-line-speculation options to guard
2551 against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly
2554 config MITIGATION_GDS
2555 bool "Mitigate Gather Data Sampling"
2556 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2559 Enable mitigation for Gather Data Sampling (GDS). GDS is a hardware
2560 vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data
2561 which was previously stored in vector registers. The attacker uses gather
2562 instructions to infer the stale vector register data.
2564 config MITIGATION_RFDS
2565 bool "RFDS Mitigation"
2566 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2569 Enable mitigation for Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) by default.
2570 RFDS is a hardware vulnerability which affects Intel Atom CPUs. It
2571 allows unprivileged speculative access to stale data previously
2572 stored in floating point, vector and integer registers.
2573 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst>
2575 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI
2576 bool "Mitigate Spectre-BHB (Branch History Injection)"
2577 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2580 Enable BHI mitigations. BHI attacks are a form of Spectre V2 attacks
2581 where the branch history buffer is poisoned to speculatively steer
2583 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst>
2585 config MITIGATION_MDS
2586 bool "Mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware bug"
2587 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2590 Enable mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is
2591 a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access
2592 to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers.
2593 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst>
2595 config MITIGATION_TAA
2596 bool "Mitigate TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) hardware bug"
2597 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2600 Enable mitigation for TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA). TAA is a hardware
2601 vulnerability that allows unprivileged speculative access to data
2602 which is available in various CPU internal buffers by using
2603 asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX transactional region.
2604 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst>
2606 config MITIGATION_MMIO_STALE_DATA
2607 bool "Mitigate MMIO Stale Data hardware bug"
2608 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2611 Enable mitigation for MMIO Stale Data hardware bugs. Processor MMIO
2612 Stale Data Vulnerabilities are a class of memory-mapped I/O (MMIO)
2613 vulnerabilities that can expose data. The vulnerabilities require the
2614 attacker to have access to MMIO.
2616 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst>
2618 config MITIGATION_L1TF
2619 bool "Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug"
2620 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2623 Mitigate L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) hardware bug. L1 Terminal Fault is a
2624 hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data
2625 available in the Level 1 Data Cache.
2626 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2628 config MITIGATION_RETBLEED
2629 bool "Mitigate RETBleed hardware bug"
2630 depends on (CPU_SUP_INTEL && MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) || MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY || MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
2633 Enable mitigation for RETBleed (Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution
2634 with Return Instructions) vulnerability. RETBleed is a speculative
2635 execution attack which takes advantage of microarchitectural behavior
2636 in many modern microprocessors, similar to Spectre v2. An
2637 unprivileged attacker can use these flaws to bypass conventional
2638 memory security restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory
2639 that would otherwise be inaccessible.
2641 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V1
2642 bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V1 hardware bug"
2645 Enable mitigation for Spectre V1 (Bounds Check Bypass). Spectre V1 is a
2646 class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of speculative
2647 execution that bypasses conditional branch instructions used for
2648 memory access bounds check.
2649 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst>
2651 config MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2
2652 bool "Mitigate SPECTRE V2 hardware bug"
2655 Enable mitigation for Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection). Spectre
2656 V2 is a class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of
2657 indirect branch predictors inside the processor. In Spectre variant 2
2658 attacks, the attacker can steer speculative indirect branches in the
2659 victim to gadget code by poisoning the branch target buffer of a CPU
2660 used for predicting indirect branch addresses.
2661 See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst>
2663 config MITIGATION_SRBDS
2664 bool "Mitigate Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) hardware bug"
2665 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
2668 Enable mitigation for Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS).
2669 SRBDS is a hardware vulnerability that allows Microarchitectural Data
2670 Sampling (MDS) techniques to infer values returned from special
2671 register accesses. An unprivileged user can extract values returned
2672 from RDRAND and RDSEED executed on another core or sibling thread
2673 using MDS techniques.
2675 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst>
2677 config MITIGATION_SSB
2678 bool "Mitigate Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) hardware bug"
2681 Enable mitigation for Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). SSB is a
2682 hardware security vulnerability and its exploitation takes advantage
2683 of speculative execution in a similar way to the Meltdown and Spectre
2684 security vulnerabilities.
2686 config MITIGATION_ITS
2687 bool "Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation"
2688 depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64
2689 depends on MITIGATION_RETPOLINE && MITIGATION_RETHUNK
2693 Enable Indirect Target Selection (ITS) mitigation. ITS is a bug in
2694 BPU on some Intel CPUs that may allow Spectre V2 style attacks. If
2695 disabled, mitigation cannot be enabled via cmdline.
2696 See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst>
2700 config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
2702 depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
2704 menu "Power management and ACPI options"
2706 config ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
2708 depends on HIBERNATION
2710 source "kernel/power/Kconfig"
2712 source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
2719 tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
2720 depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP
2722 APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
2723 techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
2724 APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
2725 reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide
2726 battery status information, and user-space programs will receive
2727 notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change).
2729 If you select "Y" here, you can disable actual use of the APM
2730 BIOS by passing the "apm=off" option to the kernel at boot time.
2732 Note that the APM support is almost completely disabled for
2733 machines with more than one CPU.
2735 In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location
2736 and more information, read <file:Documentation/power/apm-acpi.rst>
2737 and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
2738 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2740 This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8)
2741 manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off
2742 VESA-compliant "green" monitors.
2744 This driver does not support the TI 4000M TravelMate and the ACER
2745 486/DX4/75 because they don't have compliant BIOSes. Many "green"
2746 desktop machines also don't have compliant BIOSes, and this driver
2747 may cause those machines to panic during the boot phase.
2749 Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't
2750 much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get
2751 random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to
2752 anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling
2755 Some other things you should try when experiencing seemingly random,
2758 1) make sure that you have enough swap space and that it is
2760 2) pass the "idle=poll" option to the kernel
2761 3) switch on floating point emulation in the kernel and pass
2762 the "no387" option to the kernel
2763 4) pass the "floppy=nodma" option to the kernel
2764 5) pass the "mem=4M" option to the kernel (thereby disabling
2765 all but the first 4 MB of RAM)
2766 6) make sure that the CPU is not over clocked.
2767 7) read the sig11 FAQ at <http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>
2768 8) disable the cache from your BIOS settings
2769 9) install a fan for the video card or exchange video RAM
2770 10) install a better fan for the CPU
2771 11) exchange RAM chips
2772 12) exchange the motherboard.
2774 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
2775 module will be called apm.
2779 config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
2780 bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
2782 This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
2783 compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
2784 series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug.
2786 config APM_DO_ENABLE
2787 bool "Enable PM at boot time"
2789 Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
2790 specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
2791 power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend
2792 State, or take power saving steps in response to CPU Idle calls."
2793 This driver will make CPU Idle calls when Linux is idle (unless this
2794 feature is turned off -- see "Do CPU IDLE calls", below). This
2795 should always save battery power, but more complicated APM features
2796 will be dependent on your BIOS implementation. You may need to turn
2797 this option off if your computer hangs at boot time when using APM
2798 support, or if it beeps continuously instead of suspending. Turn
2799 this off if you have a NEC UltraLite Versa 33/C or a Toshiba
2800 T400CDT. This is off by default since most machines do fine without
2805 bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
2807 Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
2808 On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
2809 a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls
2810 are made after the idle loop has run for some length of time (e.g.,
2811 333 mS). On some machines, this will cause a hang at boot time or
2812 whenever the CPU becomes idle. (On machines with more than one CPU,
2813 this option does nothing.)
2815 config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
2816 bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
2818 Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
2819 turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
2820 virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by
2821 the virtual console screen blanker, and won't turn off the backlight
2822 when using the X Window system. This also doesn't have anything to
2823 do with your VESA-compliant power-saving monitor. Further, this
2824 option doesn't work for all laptops -- it might not turn off your
2825 backlight at all, or it might print a lot of errors to the console,
2826 especially if you are using gpm.
2828 config APM_ALLOW_INTS
2829 bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
2831 Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
2832 the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
2833 BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it
2834 needs to. Unfortunately, some BIOSes do not -- especially those in
2835 many of the newer IBM Thinkpads. If you experience hangs when you
2836 suspend, try setting this to Y. Otherwise, say N.
2840 source "drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig"
2842 source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
2844 source "drivers/idle/Kconfig"
2848 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)"
2851 prompt "PCI access mode"
2852 depends on X86_32 && PCI
2855 On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and
2856 determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards
2857 have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded
2858 PCI-based systems don't have any BIOS at all. Linux can also try to
2859 detect the PCI hardware directly without using the BIOS.
2861 With this option, you can specify how Linux should detect the
2862 PCI devices. If you choose "BIOS", the BIOS will be used,
2863 if you choose "Direct", the BIOS won't be used, and if you
2864 choose "MMConfig", then PCI Express MMCONFIG will be used.
2865 If you choose "Any", the kernel will try MMCONFIG, then the
2866 direct access method and falls back to the BIOS if that doesn't
2867 work. If unsure, go with the default, which is "Any".
2872 config PCI_GOMMCONFIG
2889 depends on X86_32 && PCI && (PCI_GOBIOS || PCI_GOANY)
2891 # x86-64 doesn't support PCI BIOS access from long mode so always go direct.
2894 depends on PCI && (X86_64 || (PCI_GODIRECT || PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOMMCONFIG))
2897 bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" if X86_64
2899 depends on PCI && (ACPI || JAILHOUSE_GUEST)
2900 depends on X86_64 || (PCI_GOANY || PCI_GOMMCONFIG)
2902 Add support for accessing the PCI configuration space as a memory
2903 mapped area. It is the recommended method if the system supports
2904 this (it must have PCI Express and ACPI for it to be available).
2906 In the unlikely case that enabling this configuration option causes
2907 problems, the mechanism can be switched off with the 'pci=nommconf'
2908 command line parameter.
2910 Say N only if you are sure that your platform does not support this
2911 access method or you have problems caused by it.
2917 depends on PCI && OLPC && (PCI_GOOLPC || PCI_GOANY)
2921 depends on PCI && XEN
2923 config MMCONF_FAM10H
2925 depends on X86_64 && PCI_MMCONFIG && ACPI
2927 config PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK
2928 bool "Read PCI host bridge windows from the CNB20LE chipset" if EXPERT
2929 depends on X86_32 && PCI
2931 Read the PCI windows out of the CNB20LE host bridge. This allows
2932 PCI hotplug to work on systems with the CNB20LE chipset which do
2935 The ServerWorks (later Broadcom) CNB20LE was a chipset designed
2936 most probably only for Pentium III.
2938 To find out if you have such a chipset, search for a PCI device with
2939 1166:0009 PCI IDs, for example by executing
2940 lspci -nn | grep '1166:0009'
2941 The code is inactive if there is none.
2943 There's no public spec for this chipset, and this functionality
2944 is known to be incomplete.
2946 You should say N unless you know you need this.
2949 bool "ISA bus support on modern systems" if EXPERT
2951 Expose ISA bus device drivers and options available for selection and
2952 configuration. Enable this option if your target machine has an ISA
2953 bus. ISA is an older system, displaced by PCI and newer bus
2954 architectures -- if your target machine is modern, it probably does
2955 not have an ISA bus.
2959 # x86_64 have no ISA slots, but can have ISA-style DMA.
2961 bool "ISA-style DMA support" if (X86_64 && EXPERT)
2964 Enables ISA-style DMA support for devices requiring such controllers.
2972 Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the
2973 name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
2974 inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
2975 (MCA) or VESA. ISA is an older system, now being displaced by PCI;
2976 newer boards don't support it. If you have ISA, say Y, otherwise N.
2979 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
2981 This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
2982 (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the
2983 PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
2984 for other scx200_* drivers.
2986 If compiled as a module, the driver is named scx200.
2988 config SCx200HR_TIMER
2989 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
2993 This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
2994 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for
2995 NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
2996 processor goes idle (as is done by the scheduler). The
2997 other workaround is idle=poll boot option.
3000 bool "One Laptop Per Child support"
3008 Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
3012 bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management"
3013 depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP
3015 Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop.
3018 bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock"
3019 depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS
3021 Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a
3022 programmable wakeup source.
3025 bool "OLPC XO-1 SCI extras"
3026 depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y
3030 Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop:
3031 - EC-driven system wakeups
3035 - AC adapter status updates
3036 - Battery status updates
3038 config OLPC_XO15_SCI
3039 bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras"
3040 depends on OLPC && ACPI
3043 Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop:
3044 - EC-driven system wakeups
3045 - AC adapter status updates
3046 - Battery status updates
3052 bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)"
3056 This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX.
3057 At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on
3058 ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should
3061 Note: You must still enable the drivers for GPIO and LED support
3062 (GPIO_CS5535 & LEDS_GPIO) to actually use the LEDs
3064 Note: You have to set alix.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS.
3067 bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
3071 This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501.
3074 bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
3079 This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS.
3082 bool "Technologic Systems TS-5500 platform support"
3084 select CHECK_SIGNATURE
3088 This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500.
3098 depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && PCI
3102 menu "Binary Emulations"
3104 config IA32_EMULATION
3105 bool "IA32 Emulation"
3107 select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
3109 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
3111 Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a
3112 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're
3113 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left.
3115 config IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED
3116 bool "IA32 emulation disabled by default"
3118 depends on IA32_EMULATION
3120 Make IA32 emulation disabled by default. This prevents loading 32-bit
3121 processes and access to 32-bit syscalls. If unsure, leave it to its
3125 bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode"
3127 # llvm-objcopy does not convert x86_64 .note.gnu.property or
3128 # compressed debug sections to x86_x32 properly:
3129 # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/514
3130 # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1141
3131 depends on $(success,$(OBJCOPY) --version | head -n1 | grep -qv llvm)
3133 Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI
3134 for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the
3135 full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving
3136 pointers at 32 bits for smaller memory footprint.
3140 depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_32
3142 select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
3146 depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32_ABI
3148 config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
3154 config HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP
3158 source "arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig"
3160 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures"
3162 source "arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler"