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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index ed92864d132..f65c2744d57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ config X86_64
### Arch settings
config X86
def_bool y
+ select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32
select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
select HAVE_IDE
select HAVE_OPROFILE
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_FTRACE
select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64)
select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER
+ select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32
select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
@@ -151,9 +153,6 @@ config AUDIT_ARCH
bool
default X86_64
-config ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
- def_bool y
-
config ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING
def_bool y
@@ -553,6 +552,7 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
config AMD_IOMMU
bool "AMD IOMMU support"
select SWIOTLB
+ select PCI_MSI
depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
help
With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in
@@ -776,23 +776,45 @@ config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
Say N otherwise.
config MICROCODE
- tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support"
+ tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - microcode support"
select FW_LOADER
---help---
If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
- Intel processors in the IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II,
- Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon etc. You will obviously need the
- actual microcode binary data itself which is not shipped with the
- Linux kernel.
+ certain Intel and AMD processors. The Intel support is for the
+ IA32 family, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
+ Pentium 4, Xeon etc. The AMD support is for family 0x10 and
+ 0x11 processors, e.g. Opteron, Phenom and Turion 64 Ultra.
+ You will obviously need the actual microcode binary data itself
+ which is not shipped with the Linux kernel.
- For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
- ingredients for this driver, check:
- <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
+ This option selects the general module only, you need to select
+ at least one vendor specific module as well.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called microcode.
-config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
+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/>.
+
+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.
+
+ config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
def_bool y
depends on MICROCODE
@@ -1020,7 +1042,7 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP
config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
def_bool y
- depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && X86_PC && !NUMA
+ depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA
config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
def_bool y
@@ -1036,7 +1058,7 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
def_bool y
- depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC)
+ depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC) || X86_GENERICARCH
select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
@@ -1059,6 +1081,56 @@ config HIGHPTE
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.
+
+config X86_BOOTPARAM_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.
+
+config X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Say Y if unsure.
+
config MATH_EMULATION
bool
prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32
@@ -1117,10 +1189,10 @@ config MTRR
You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll
just add about 9 KB to your kernel.
- See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information.
+ See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information.
config MTRR_SANITIZER
- bool
+ def_bool y
prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
depends on MTRR
help
@@ -1131,7 +1203,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER
The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with
mtrr_chunk_size.
- If unsure, say N.
+ If unsure, say Y.
config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)"
@@ -1191,7 +1263,6 @@ config IRQBALANCE
config SECCOMP
def_bool y
prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- depends on PROC_FS
help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
@@ -1199,7 +1270,7 @@ config SECCOMP
the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
- enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled
+ enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled
and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
defined by each seccomp mode.
@@ -1356,14 +1427,14 @@ config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
config HOTPLUG_CPU
- bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER
+ bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
+ depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && !X86_VOYAGER
---help---
- Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to
- enable suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through
- /sys/devices/system/cpu.
- Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug and don't need to
- suspend.
+ Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be
+ controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.
+ ( Note: power management support will enable this option
+ automatically on SMP systems. )
+ Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
config COMPAT_VDSO
def_bool y
@@ -1378,6 +1449,51 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO
If unsure, say Y.
+config CMDLINE_BOOL
+ bool "Built-in kernel command line"
+ default n
+ 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
+ kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is,
+ to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.)
+
+ To compile command line arguments into the kernel,
+ set this option to 'Y', then fill in the
+ the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
+
+ Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded)
+ should leave this option set to 'N'.
+
+config CMDLINE
+ string "Built-in kernel command string"
+ depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
+ default ""
+ 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
+ form the full kernel command line, when the system boots.
+
+ However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to
+ change this behavior.
+
+ In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided
+ by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root
+ file system.
+
+config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
+ bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
+ default n
+ depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
+ help
+ Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
+ command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
+
+ This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should
+ be set to 'N' under normal conditions.
+
endmenu
config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
@@ -1643,6 +1759,14 @@ config DMAR_FLOPPY_WA
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.
+
source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"
@@ -1759,7 +1883,7 @@ config IA32_EMULATION
config IA32_AOUT
tristate "IA32 a.out support"
- depends on IA32_EMULATION && ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
+ depends on IA32_EMULATION
help
Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
@@ -1773,7 +1897,7 @@ config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
def_bool y
- depends on X86_64 && COMPAT && SYSVIPC
+ depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
endmenu