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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 404 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 70 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 47 |
3 files changed, 260 insertions, 261 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 80291f749b66..270ecf90bdb4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" config 64BIT bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" default ARCH = "x86_64" - help + ---help--- Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ config SMP config SPARSE_IRQ bool "Support sparse irq numbering" depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ - help + ---help--- This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines. @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ config NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA default n - help + ---help--- This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled. If you don't know what to do here, say N. @@ -258,19 +258,19 @@ config X86_MPPARSE bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI default y depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC - help + ---help--- For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it config X86_BIGSMP bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs" depends on X86_32 && SMP - help + ---help--- This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs config X86_NON_STANDARD bool "Support for non-standard x86 platforms" - help + ---help--- If you disable this option then the kernel will only support standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of systems out there.) @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ config X86_VISWS bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT depends on X86_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ config X86_RDC321X depends on X86_NON_STANDARD select M486 select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS - help + ---help--- This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known as R-8610-(G). If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here. @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ config X86_UV bool "SGI Ultraviolet" depends on X86_64 depends on X86_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems. If you don't have one of these, you should say N here. @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ config X86_VSMP select PARAVIRT depends on X86_64 && PCI depends on X86_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines. Only choose this option if you have one of these machines. @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ config X86_ELAN bool "AMD Elan" depends on X86_32 depends on X86_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- Select this for an AMD Elan processor. Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors! @@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ config X86_32_NON_STANDARD bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures" depends on X86_32 && SMP depends on X86_NON_STANDARD - help - This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default + ---help--- + This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary kernel. if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will fallback to default. @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ config X86_NUMAQ depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD select NUMA select X86_MPPARSE - help + ---help--- This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead @@ -359,14 +359,14 @@ config X86_NUMAQ config X86_SUMMIT bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)" depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. In particular, it is needed for the x440. config X86_ES7000 bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series" depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP - help + ---help--- Support for Unisys ES7000 systems. Say 'Y' here if this kernel is supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system. @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ config X86_VOYAGER bool "Voyager (NCR)" depends on SMP && !PCI && BROKEN depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based. @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER def_bool y prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output" depends on X86 - help + ---help--- Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values, @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER menuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST bool "Paravirtualized guest support" - help + ---help--- Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code. @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ config VMI bool "VMI Guest support" select PARAVIRT depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ config KVM_CLOCK bool "KVM paravirtualized clock" select PARAVIRT select PARAVIRT_CLOCK - help + ---help--- Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host @@ -431,15 +431,15 @@ config KVM_CLOCK config KVM_GUEST bool "KVM Guest support" select PARAVIRT - help - This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM - hypervisor. + ---help--- + This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM + hypervisor. source "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" config PARAVIRT bool "Enable paravirtualization code" - help + ---help--- This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor @@ -452,21 +452,21 @@ config PARAVIRT_CLOCK endif config PARAVIRT_DEBUG - bool "paravirt-ops debugging" - depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL - help - Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if - a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. + bool "paravirt-ops debugging" + depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL + ---help--- + Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if + a paravirt_op is missing when it is called. config MEMTEST bool "Memtest" - help + ---help--- This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest to be set. - memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default - memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; - ... - memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. + memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default + memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; + ... + memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. config X86_SUMMIT_NUMA @@ -482,21 +482,21 @@ source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu" config HPET_TIMER def_bool X86_64 prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32 - help - Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage - time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is - present. - HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. - The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP - systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, - as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at - <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. + ---help--- + Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage + time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is + present. + HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s. + The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP + systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access, + as it is off-chip. You can find the HPET spec at + <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>. - You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be - activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. - Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. + You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be + activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature. + Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services. - Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. + Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. config HPET_EMULATE_RTC def_bool y @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ config HPET_EMULATE_RTC config DMI default y bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED - help + ---help--- Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y here unless you have verified that your setup is not affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ config GART_IOMMU select SWIOTLB select AGP depends on X86_64 && PCI - help + ---help--- Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" select SWIOTLB depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL - help + ---help--- Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460 systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT def_bool y prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?" depends on CALGARY_IOMMU - help + ---help--- Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ config AMD_IOMMU select SWIOTLB select PCI_MSI depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI - help + ---help--- With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ config AMD_IOMMU_STATS bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs" depends on AMD_IOMMU select DEBUG_FS - help + ---help--- This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that information to userspace via debugfs. @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ config AMD_IOMMU_STATS # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround config SWIOTLB def_bool y if X86_64 - help + ---help--- Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ config MAXSMP depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK default n - help + ---help--- Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture. If unsure, say N. @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ config NR_CPUS default "4096" if MAXSMP default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) default "8" if SMP - help + ---help--- This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the minimum value which makes sense is 2. @@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ config NR_CPUS config SCHED_SMT bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support" depends on X86_HT - help + ---help--- SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ config SCHED_MC def_bool y prompt "Multi-core scheduler support" depends on X86_HT - help + ---help--- Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here. @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" config X86_UP_APIC bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD - help + ---help--- A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ config X86_UP_APIC config X86_UP_IOAPIC bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors" depends on X86_UP_APIC - help + ---help--- An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one. @@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs" default n depends on X86_IO_APIC - help + ---help--- This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ config X86_MCE_INTEL def_bool y prompt "Intel MCE features" depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC - help + ---help--- Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as the thermal monitor. @@ -734,14 +734,14 @@ config X86_MCE_AMD def_bool y prompt "AMD MCE features" depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC - help + ---help--- Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as the DRAM Error Threshold. config X86_MCE_NONFATAL tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE - help + ---help--- Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ config X86_MCE_NONFATAL config X86_MCE_P4THERMAL bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) - help + ---help--- Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 enters thermal throttling. @@ -762,11 +762,11 @@ config VM86 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED default y depends on X86_32 - help - This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy + ---help--- + This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit 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. + XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this + option saves about 6k. config TOSHIBA tristate "Toshiba Laptop support" @@ -840,33 +840,33 @@ config MICROCODE module will be called microcode. config MICROCODE_INTEL - bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" - depends on MICROCODE - default MICROCODE - select FW_LOADER - --help--- - This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel - processors. - - For latest news and information on obtaining all the required - Intel ingredients for this driver, check: - <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. + bool "Intel microcode patch loading support" + depends on MICROCODE + default MICROCODE + select FW_LOADER + ---help--- + This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel + processors. + + For latest news and information on obtaining all the required + Intel ingredients for this driver, check: + <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>. config MICROCODE_AMD - bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" - depends on MICROCODE - select FW_LOADER - --help--- - If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD - processors will be enabled. + bool "AMD microcode patch loading support" + depends on MICROCODE + select FW_LOADER + ---help--- + If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD + processors will be enabled. - config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE +config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE def_bool y depends on MICROCODE config X86_MSR tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" - help + ---help--- This device gives privileged processes access to the x86 Model-Specific Registers (MSRs). It is a character device with major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr. @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ config X86_MSR config X86_CPUID tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support" - help + ---help--- This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ config NOHIGHMEM config HIGHMEM4G bool "4GB" depends on !X86_NUMAQ - help + ---help--- Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ config HIGHMEM64G bool "64GB" depends on !M386 && !M486 select X86_PAE - help + ---help--- Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. @@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ choice prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED default VMSPLIT_3G depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. If the address range available to the kernel is less than the @@ -992,20 +992,20 @@ config HIGHMEM config X86_PAE bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G - help + ---help--- PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also consumes more pagetable space per process. config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT - def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE + def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE config DIRECT_GBPAGES bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED default y depends on X86_64 - help + ---help--- Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ config NUMA depends on SMP depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) - help + ---help--- Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the @@ -1039,19 +1039,19 @@ config K8_NUMA def_bool y prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection" depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI - help - Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if - you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old - method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin - Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA - instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. + ---help--- + Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if + you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old + method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin + Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA + instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in. config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA def_bool y prompt "ACPI NUMA detection" depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI select ACPI_NUMA - help + ---help--- Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection. # Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span @@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ config NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config NUMA_EMU bool "NUMA emulation" depends on X86_64 && NUMA - help + ---help--- Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging. @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ config NODES_SHIFT default "4" if X86_NUMAQ default "3" depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES - help + ---help--- Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target system. Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables. @@ -1134,61 +1134,61 @@ source "mm/Kconfig" config HIGHPTE bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) - help + ---help--- The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION - bool "Check for low memory corruption" - help - Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which - is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the - configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by - setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command - line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 - seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and - memory_corruption_check_period parameters in - Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. - - When enabled with the default parameters, this option has - almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount - of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption - and prevents it from affecting the running system. - - It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable - BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, - you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that - memory. + bool "Check for low memory corruption" + ---help--- + Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which + is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the + configuration, it is disabled at runtime. Enable it by + setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command + line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 + seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and + memory_corruption_check_period parameters in + Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. + + When enabled with the default parameters, this option has + almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount + of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption + and prevents it from affecting the running system. + + It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable + BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, + you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that + memory. config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK - bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" + bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION default y - help - Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is - on or off. + ---help--- + Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is + on or off. config X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K - bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" + bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen" default y - help - Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known - to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are - known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not - be used by the kernel. + ---help--- + Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known + to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are + known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not + be used by the kernel. - Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS - to get all its memory reservations and usages right. + Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS + to get all its memory reservations and usages right. - If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not - work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug - events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable - X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical - corruption patterns. + If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not + work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug + events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable + X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical + corruption patterns. - Say Y if unsure. + Say Y if unsure. config MATH_EMULATION bool @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER def_bool y prompt "MTRR cleanup support" depends on MTRR - help + ---help--- Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can add writeback entries. @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT range 0 1 default "0" depends on MTRR_SANITIZER - help + ---help--- Enable mtrr cleanup default value config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT @@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT range 0 7 default "1" depends on MTRR_SANITIZER - help + ---help--- mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line. @@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ config X86_PAT bool prompt "x86 PAT support" depends on MTRR - help + ---help--- Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control. PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more @@ -1300,20 +1300,20 @@ config EFI bool "EFI runtime service support" depends on ACPI ---help--- - This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are - available (such as the EFI variable services). + This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are + available (such as the EFI variable services). - This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. - In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available - at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage - of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the - resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI - platforms. + This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware. + In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available + at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage + of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the + resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI + platforms. config SECCOMP def_bool y prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" - help + ---help--- This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to @@ -1333,8 +1333,8 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on X86_64 select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL - help - This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This + ---help--- + This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on the stack just before the return address, and validates the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer @@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz config KEXEC bool "kexec system call" - help + ---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 but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot @@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ config KEXEC config CRASH_DUMP bool "kernel crash dumps" depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) - help + ---help--- Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32 - help + ---help--- Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke code in physical address mode via KEXEC @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_START default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ default "0x200000" if X86_64 default "0x100000" - help + ---help--- This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_START config RELOCATABLE bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL - help + ---help--- This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_ALIGN default "0x100000" if X86_32 default "0x200000" if X86_64 range 0x2000 0x400000 - help + ---help--- This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an address which meets above alignment restriction. @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO def_bool y prompt "Compat VDSO support" depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION - help + ---help--- Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too. ---help--- Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc @@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO config CMDLINE_BOOL bool "Built-in kernel command line" default n - help + ---help--- Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at build time. On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the @@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@ config CMDLINE string "Built-in kernel command string" depends on CMDLINE_BOOL default "" - help + ---help--- Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel image and used at boot time. If the boot loader provides a command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to @@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments" default n depends on CMDLINE_BOOL - help + ---help--- Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line. @@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ if APM config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND" - help + ---help--- This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug. @@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ config APM_DO_ENABLE config APM_CPU_IDLE bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" - help + ---help--- Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls @@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ config APM_CPU_IDLE config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK bool "Enable console blanking using APM" - help + ---help--- Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by @@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK config APM_ALLOW_INTS bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls" - help + ---help--- Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving BIOS implementation. The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it @@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ config PCI bool "PCI support" default y select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC) - help + ---help--- Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or @@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ config PCI_MMCONFIG config DMAR bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL - help + ---help--- DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables @@ -1798,29 +1798,29 @@ config DMAR_GFX_WA def_bool y prompt "Support for Graphics workaround" depends on DMAR - help - Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address - for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config - option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for - all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue - to use physical addresses for DMA. + ---help--- + Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address + for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config + option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for + all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue + to use physical addresses for DMA. config DMAR_FLOPPY_WA def_bool y depends on DMAR - help - Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls - thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This - workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first - 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. + ---help--- + Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls + thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This + workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first + 16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work. config INTR_REMAP bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL - help - Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. - To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or - to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. + ---help--- + Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices. + To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or + to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y. source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" @@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ if X86_32 config ISA bool "ISA support" - help + ---help--- Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard. ISA is the name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside your box. Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel @@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" config MCA bool "MCA support" - help + ---help--- MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given @@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ source "drivers/mca/Kconfig" config SCx200 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support" - help + ---help--- This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's (now AMD's) Geode processors. The driver probes for the PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ config SCx200HR_TIMER tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support" depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME default y - help + ---help--- This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip 27MHz high-resolution timer. Its also a workaround for NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the @@ -1894,7 +1894,7 @@ config GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER def_bool y prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events" depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS - help + ---help--- This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the @@ -1903,7 +1903,7 @@ config GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER config OLPC bool "One Laptop Per Child support" default n - help + ---help--- Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC XO hardware. @@ -1928,16 +1928,16 @@ config IA32_EMULATION bool "IA32 Emulation" depends on X86_64 select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF - help + ---help--- Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. config IA32_AOUT - tristate "IA32 a.out support" - depends on IA32_EMULATION - help - Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. + tristate "IA32 a.out support" + depends on IA32_EMULATION + ---help--- + Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. config COMPAT def_bool y diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index 085fef4d8660..a95eaf0e582a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ config M386 config M486 bool "486" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a 486 series processor, either Intel or one of the compatible processors from AMD, Cyrix, IBM, or Intel. Includes DX, DX2, and DX4 variants; also SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5D or @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ config M486 config M586 bool "586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for an 586 or 686 series processor such as the AMD K5, the Cyrix 5x86, 6x86 and 6x86MX. This choice does not assume the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. @@ -67,21 +67,21 @@ config M586 config M586TSC bool "Pentium-Classic" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a Pentium Classic processor with the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction for benchmarking. config M586MMX bool "Pentium-MMX" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a Pentium with the MMX graphics/multimedia extended instructions. config M686 bool "Pentium-Pro" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for Intel Pentium Pro chips. This enables the use of Pentium Pro extended instructions, and disables the init-time guard against the f00f bug found in earlier Pentiums. @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ config M686 config MPENTIUMII bool "Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine)" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-II and pre-Coppermine Celeron core. This option enables an unaligned copy optimization, compiles the kernel with optimization flags @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ config MPENTIUMII config MPENTIUMIII bool "Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)/Pentium-III Xeon" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-III and Celeron-Coppermine core. This option enables use of some extended prefetch instructions in addition to the Pentium II @@ -108,14 +108,14 @@ config MPENTIUMIII config MPENTIUMM bool "Pentium M" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for Intel Pentium M (not Pentium-4 M) notebook chips. config MPENTIUM4 bool "Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/older Xeon" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for Intel Pentium 4 chips. This includes the Pentium 4, Pentium D, P4-based Celeron and Xeon, and Pentium-4 M (not Pentium M) chips. This option enables compile @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ config MPENTIUM4 config MK6 bool "K6/K6-II/K6-III" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for an AMD K6-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC. @@ -159,14 +159,14 @@ config MK6 config MK7 bool "Athlon/Duron/K7" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for an AMD Athlon K7-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC. config MK8 bool "Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8" - help + ---help--- Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC. @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ config MK8 config MCRUSOE bool "Crusoe" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Treats the processor like a 586 with TSC, and sets some GCC optimization flags (like a Pentium Pro with no alignment requirements). @@ -182,13 +182,13 @@ config MCRUSOE config MEFFICEON bool "Efficeon" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a Transmeta Efficeon processor. config MWINCHIPC6 bool "Winchip-C6" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for an IDT Winchip C6 chip. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment requirements. @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ config MWINCHIPC6 config MWINCHIP3D bool "Winchip-2/Winchip-2A/Winchip-3" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for an IDT Winchip-2, 2A or 3. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment requirements. Also enable out of order memory @@ -206,19 +206,19 @@ config MWINCHIP3D config MGEODEGX1 bool "GeodeGX1" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a Geode GX1 (Cyrix MediaGX) chip. config MGEODE_LX bool "Geode GX/LX" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for AMD Geode GX and LX processors. config MCYRIXIII bool "CyrixIII/VIA-C3" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a Cyrix III or C3 chip. Presently Linux and GCC treat this chip as a generic 586. Whilst the CPU is 686 class, it lacks the cmov extension which gcc assumes is present when @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ config MCYRIXIII config MVIAC3_2 bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686. Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s. @@ -238,14 +238,14 @@ config MVIAC3_2 config MVIAC7 bool "VIA C7" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Select this for a VIA C7. Selecting this uses the correct cache shift and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686. config MPSC bool "Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon" depends on X86_64 - help + ---help--- Optimize for Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and older Nocona/Dempsey Xeon CPUs with Intel 64bit which is compatible with x86-64. Note that the latest Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) are not based on the @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ config MPSC config MCORE2 bool "Core 2/newer Xeon" - help + ---help--- Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ config MCORE2 config GENERIC_CPU bool "Generic-x86-64" depends on X86_64 - help + ---help--- Generic x86-64 CPU. Run equally well on all x86-64 CPUs. @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ endchoice config X86_GENERIC bool "Generic x86 support" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- Instead of just including optimizations for the selected x86 variant (e.g. PII, Crusoe or Athlon), include some more generic optimizations as well. This will make the kernel @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ config X86_XADD config X86_PPRO_FENCE bool "PentiumPro memory ordering errata workaround" depends on M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || M386 || MGEODEGX1 - help + ---help--- Old PentiumPro multiprocessor systems had errata that could cause memory operations to violate the x86 ordering standard in rare cases. Enabling this option will attempt to work around some (but not all) @@ -412,14 +412,14 @@ config X86_DEBUGCTLMSR menuconfig PROCESSOR_SELECT bool "Supported processor vendors" if EMBEDDED - help + ---help--- This lets you choose what x86 vendor support code your kernel will include. config CPU_SUP_INTEL default y bool "Support Intel processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Intel processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on an @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CYRIX_32 default y bool "Support Cyrix processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT depends on !64BIT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Cyrix processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CYRIX_32 config CPU_SUP_AMD default y bool "Support AMD processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for AMD processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on an @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR_32 default y bool "Support Centaur processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT depends on !64BIT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Centaur processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR_64 default y bool "Support Centaur processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT depends on 64BIT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Centaur processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_TRANSMETA_32 default y bool "Support Transmeta processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT depends on !64BIT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Transmeta processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32 default y bool "Support UMC processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT depends on !64BIT - help + ---help--- This enables detection, tunings and quirks for UMC processors You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ config X86_PTRACE_BTS bool "Branch Trace Store" default y depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR - help + ---help--- This adds a ptrace interface to the hardware's branch trace store. Debuggers may use it to collect an execution trace of the debugged diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index a38dd6064f10..ba4781b93890 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug" config STRICT_DEVMEM bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" - help + ---help--- If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config STRICT_DEVMEM config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages" default y - help + ---help--- Enables the informational output from the decompression stage (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP config EARLY_PRINTK bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED default y - help + ---help--- Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial port. @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port" default n depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI - help + ---help--- Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very @@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW bool "Check for stack overflows" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space drops below a certain limit. config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC bool "Debug page memory allocations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on SMP default n - help + ---help--- Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory and decreases performance. @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ config X86_PTDUMP bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select DEBUG_FS - help + ---help--- Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel. @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" default y depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables, in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner. @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature" depends on DEBUG_RODATA default y - help + ---help--- This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. If in doubt, say "N" @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST config DEBUG_NX_TEST tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m - help + ---help--- This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability and the software setup of this feature. If in doubt, say "N" @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ config DEBUG_NX_TEST config 4KSTACKS bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ config DOUBLEFAULT default y bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ config IOMMU_DEBUG bool "Enable IOMMU debugging" depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL depends on X86_64 - help + ---help--- Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ config IOMMU_LEAK bool "IOMMU leak tracing" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on IOMMU_DEBUG - help + ---help--- Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings. @@ -224,25 +224,25 @@ choice config IO_DELAY_0X80 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]" - help + ---help--- This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p. It is the most tested hence safest selection here. config IO_DELAY_0XED bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay" - help + ---help--- Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is often used as a hardware-debug port. config IO_DELAY_UDELAY bool "udelay based port-IO delay" - help + ---help--- Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay while not having any side-effect on the IO port space. config IO_DELAY_NONE bool "no port-IO delay" - help + ---help--- No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines. @@ -276,18 +276,18 @@ config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS bool "Debug boot parameters" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on DEBUG_FS - help + ---help--- This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs. config CPA_DEBUG bool "CPA self-test code" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds. config OPTIMIZE_INLINING bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'" - help + ---help--- This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of @@ -300,4 +300,3 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING If unsure, say N. endmenu - |
