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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 38 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index f67e839f06c8..725e1573ea85 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ config X86 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION select RTC_LIB select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER def_bool y @@ -756,20 +757,25 @@ config DMI BIOS code. config GART_IOMMU - bool "GART IOMMU support" if EXPERT - default y + bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support" select SWIOTLB depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB ---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. - Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART - based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used - on Intel systems and as fallback. - The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited - device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified - too. + Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron + GART based hardware IOMMUs. + + The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access + limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed + for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices. + + Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via + the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option. + + In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed: + there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a + 32-bit limited device. + + If unsure, say Y. config CALGARY_IOMMU bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support" @@ -825,14 +831,16 @@ config MAXSMP config NR_CPUS int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP - range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP + range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK + range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64 default "1" if !SMP - default "4096" if MAXSMP + default "8192" if MAXSMP default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000) default "8" if SMP ---help--- This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this - kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 512 and the + kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum + supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The minimum value which makes sense is 2. This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds @@ -1594,7 +1602,7 @@ config EFI_STUB This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader. - See Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt for more information. + See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information. config SECCOMP def_bool y |