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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 98 |
1 files changed, 81 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index b3a1a5d77..a43ae1fa2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ config X86 select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL - select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API + select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64 + select ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI @@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ config X86 select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if X86_64 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS + select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH if SMP select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32 @@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS - select HAVE_UID16 if X86_32 + select HAVE_UID16 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING @@ -875,10 +877,26 @@ config SCHED_SMT depends on SMP ---help--- SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making - when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a + when dealing with Intel P4/Core 2 chips with HyperThreading at a cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. +config SMT_NICE + bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) aware nice priority and policy support" + depends on SCHED_BFS && SCHED_SMT + default y + ---help--- + Enabling Hyperthreading on Intel CPUs decreases the effectiveness + of the use of 'nice' levels and different scheduling policies + (e.g. realtime) due to sharing of CPU power between hyperthreads. + SMT nice support makes each logical CPU aware of what is running on + its hyperthread siblings, maintaining appropriate distribution of + CPU according to nice levels and scheduling policies at the expense + of slightly increased overhead. + + If unsure say Y here. + + config SCHED_MC def_bool y prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" @@ -955,6 +973,7 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS config X86_MCE bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" + select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR default y ---help--- Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the @@ -1002,19 +1021,42 @@ config X86_THERMAL_VECTOR def_bool y depends on X86_MCE_INTEL -config VM86 - bool "Enable VM86 support" if EXPERT - default y +config X86_LEGACY_VM86 + bool "Legacy VM86 support" + default n depends on X86_32 ---help--- - This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run - 16-bit real mode legacy code on x86 processors. It also may - be needed by software like XFree86 to initialize some video - cards via BIOS. Disabling this option saves about 6K. + This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086 + mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode. + + Some very old versions of X and/or vbetool require this option + for user mode setting. Similarly, DOSEMU will use it if + available to accelerate real mode DOS programs. However, any + recent version of DOSEMU, X, or vbetool should be fully + functional even without kernel VM86 support, as they will all + fall back to software emulation. Nevertheless, if you are using + a 16-bit DOS program where 16-bit performance matters, vm86 + mode might be faster than emulation and you might want to + enable this option. + + Note that any app that works on a 64-bit kernel is unlikely to + need this option, as 64-bit kernels don't, and can't, support + V8086 mode. This option is also unrelated to 16-bit protected + mode and is not needed to run most 16-bit programs under Wine. + + Enabling this option increases the complexity of the kernel + and slows down exception handling a tiny bit. + + If unsure, say N here. + +config VM86 + bool + default X86_LEGACY_VM86 config X86_16BIT bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT default y + depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL ---help--- This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling @@ -1282,6 +1324,7 @@ config HIGHMEM config X86_PAE bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G + select SWIOTLB ---help--- PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It @@ -1426,10 +1469,14 @@ config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE source "mm/Kconfig" +config X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE + bool + config X86_PMEM_LEGACY - bool "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory" + tristate "Support non-standard NVDIMMs and ADR protected memory" depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT depends on BLK_DEV + select X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE select LIBNVDIMM help Treat memory marked using the non-standard e820 type of 12 as used @@ -1509,6 +1556,7 @@ config X86_RESERVE_LOW config MATH_EMULATION bool + depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 ---help--- Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point @@ -1724,6 +1772,7 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz config KEXEC bool "kexec system call" + select KEXEC_CORE ---help--- kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot @@ -1740,8 +1789,8 @@ config KEXEC config KEXEC_FILE bool "kexec file based system call" + select KEXEC_CORE select BUILD_BIN2C - depends on KEXEC depends on X86_64 depends on CRYPTO=y depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y @@ -1944,7 +1993,7 @@ config HOTPLUG_CPU config BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable" default n - depends on HOTPLUG_CPU + depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && !SCHED_BFS ---help--- Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off. @@ -1973,7 +2022,7 @@ config BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 config DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 def_bool n prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug" - depends on HOTPLUG_CPU + depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && !SCHED_BFS ---help--- Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User @@ -2053,6 +2102,22 @@ config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should be set to 'N' under normal conditions. +config MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL + bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT + default y + ---help--- + Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86 + Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system + call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as + DOSEMU or some Wine programs. It is also used by some very old + threading libraries. + + Enabling this feature adds a small amount of overhead to + context switches and increases the low-level kernel attack + surface. Disabling it removes the modify_ldt(2) system call. + + Saying 'N' here may make sense for embedded or server kernels. + source "kernel/livepatch/Kconfig" endmenu @@ -2522,7 +2587,7 @@ config IA32_EMULATION depends on X86_64 select BINFMT_ELF select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF - select HAVE_UID16 + select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC ---help--- Include code to run legacy 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're @@ -2536,7 +2601,7 @@ config IA32_AOUT config X86_X32 bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" - depends on X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION + depends on X86_64 ---help--- Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the @@ -2550,7 +2615,6 @@ config X86_X32 config COMPAT def_bool y depends on IA32_EMULATION || X86_X32 - select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC if COMPAT config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT |