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diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
index e18eb79bf85..4310b4a311a 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
bool
+config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
+ bool
+ default y
+
config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
bool
default y
@@ -246,6 +250,15 @@ config SCHED_SMT
cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say
N here.
+config SCHED_MC
+ bool "Multi-core scheduler support"
+ depends on SMP
+ default y
+ 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.
+
source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
config NUMA
@@ -321,9 +334,13 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
def_bool y
depends on NUMA
+config OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE
+ def_bool y
+ depends on DISCONTIGMEM
+
config NR_CPUS
int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-256)"
- range 2 256
+ range 2 255
depends on SMP
default "8"
help
@@ -364,13 +381,15 @@ config GART_IOMMU
select SWIOTLB
depends on PCI
help
- Support the IOMMU. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory
- properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC (Double Address
- Cycle). The IOMMU can be turned off at runtime with the iommu=off parameter.
- Normally the kernel will take the right choice by itself.
- This option includes a driver for the AMD Opteron/Athlon64 northbridge IOMMU
- and a software emulation used on other systems.
- If unsure, say Y.
+ Support for hardware IOMMU in AMD's Opteron/Athlon64 Processors
+ and for the bounce buffering software IOMMU.
+ Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory properly with
+ 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC (Double Address Cycle).
+ The IOMMU can be turned off at runtime with the iommu=off parameter.
+ Normally the kernel will take the right choice by itself.
+ This option includes a driver for the AMD Opteron/Athlon64 IOMMU
+ northbridge and a software emulation used on other systems without
+ hardware IOMMU. If unsure, say Y.
# need this always enabled with GART_IOMMU for the VIA workaround
config SWIOTLB
@@ -429,10 +448,10 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
default "0x1000000" if CRASH_DUMP
- default "0x100000"
+ default "0x200000"
help
This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. Normally
- for regular kernels this value is 0x100000 (1MB). But in the case
+ for regular kernels this value is 0x200000 (2MB). But in the case
of kexec on panic the fail safe kernel needs to run at a different
address than the panic-ed kernel. This option is used to set the load
address for kernels used to capture crash dump on being kexec'ed
@@ -464,6 +483,14 @@ config SECCOMP
source kernel/Kconfig.hz
+config REORDER
+ bool "Function reordering"
+ default n
+ help
+ This option enables the toolchain to reorder functions for a more
+ optimal TLB usage. If you have pretty much any version of binutils,
+ this can increase your kernel build time by roughly one minute.
+
endmenu
#
@@ -512,16 +539,6 @@ config PCI_MMCONFIG
bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access"
depends on PCI && ACPI
-config UNORDERED_IO
- bool "Unordered IO mapping access"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- help
- Use unordered stores to access IO memory mappings in device drivers.
- Still very experimental. When a driver works on IA64/ppc64/pa-risc it should
- work with this option, but it makes the drivers behave differently
- from i386. Requires that the driver writer used memory barriers
- properly.
-
source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
source "drivers/pci/Kconfig"