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authorSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2018-03-30 12:35:45 -0400
committerSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2018-03-30 12:35:45 -0400
commit83fd26c3f32afe38bb2ab8cc00e313ec5c2edbce (patch)
treeb2d2719c998bc2bcba99f2ecf2d164ee9b7ad75a /arch/x86/Kconfig
parent4165791d29f64e01860a064f3c649447dbac41c3 (diff)
parent694f54f680f7fd8e9561928fbfc537d9afbc3d79 (diff)
downloadlinux-83fd26c3f32afe38bb2ab8cc00e313ec5c2edbce.tar.bz2
Merge airlied/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging to pick up a fix from drm-misc-next-fixes. Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig89
1 files changed, 61 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 63bf349b2b24..0fa71a78ec99 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -423,12 +423,6 @@ config X86_MPPARSE
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---
- This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs
-
config GOLDFISH
def_bool y
depends on X86_GOLDFISH
@@ -436,6 +430,7 @@ config GOLDFISH
config RETPOLINE
bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel"
default y
+ select STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
help
Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against
kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect
@@ -460,6 +455,12 @@ config INTEL_RDT
Say N if unsure.
if X86_32
+config X86_BIGSMP
+ bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
+ depends on SMP
+ ---help---
+ This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs
+
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
default y
@@ -949,25 +950,66 @@ config MAXSMP
Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
If unsure, say N.
+#
+# The maximum number of CPUs supported:
+#
+# The main config value is NR_CPUS, which defaults to NR_CPUS_DEFAULT,
+# and which can be configured interactively in the
+# [NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN ... NR_CPUS_RANGE_END] range.
+#
+# The ranges are different on 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, depending on
+# hardware capabilities and scalability features of the kernel.
+#
+# ( If MAXSMP is enabled we just use the highest possible value and disable
+# interactive configuration. )
+#
+
+config NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN
+ int
+ default NR_CPUS_RANGE_END if MAXSMP
+ default 1 if !SMP
+ default 2
+
+config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
+ int
+ depends on X86_32
+ default 64 if SMP && X86_BIGSMP
+ default 8 if SMP && !X86_BIGSMP
+ default 1 if !SMP
+
+config NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
+ int
+ depends on X86_64
+ default 8192 if SMP && ( MAXSMP || CPUMASK_OFFSTACK)
+ default 512 if SMP && (!MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK)
+ default 1 if !SMP
+
+config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
+ int
+ depends on X86_32
+ default 32 if X86_BIGSMP
+ default 8 if SMP
+ default 1 if !SMP
+
+config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
+ int
+ depends on X86_64
+ default 8192 if MAXSMP
+ default 64 if SMP
+ default 1 if !SMP
+
config NR_CPUS
int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
- range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP
- range 2 64 if SMP && X86_32 && X86_BIGSMP
- range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64
- range 2 8192 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64
- default "1" if !SMP
- default "8192" if MAXSMP
- default "32" if SMP && X86_BIGSMP
- default "8" if SMP && X86_32
- default "64" if SMP
+ range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
+ default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
---help---
This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
kernel will support. If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum
supported value is 8192, otherwise the maximum value is 512. The
minimum value which makes sense is 2.
- This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds
- approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image.
+ This is purely to save memory: each supported CPU adds about 8KB
+ to the kernel image.
config SCHED_SMT
bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support"
@@ -1363,7 +1405,7 @@ config HIGHMEM4G
config HIGHMEM64G
bool "64GB"
- depends on !M486
+ depends on !M486 && !M586 && !M586TSC && !M586MMX && !MGEODE_LX && !MGEODEGX1 && !MCYRIXIII && !MELAN && !MWINCHIPC6 && !WINCHIP3D && !MK6
select X86_PAE
---help---
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
@@ -2265,7 +2307,7 @@ choice
it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation.
This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command
- line parameter vsyscall=[native|emulate|none].
+ line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|none].
On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no
static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty
@@ -2273,15 +2315,6 @@ choice
If unsure, select "Emulate".
- config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE
- bool "Native"
- help
- Actual executable code is located in the fixed vsyscall
- address mapping, implementing time() efficiently. Since
- this makes the mapping executable, it can be used during
- security vulnerability exploitation (traditionally as
- ROP gadgets). This configuration is not recommended.
-
config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE
bool "Emulate"
help