treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.
This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.
There are a variety of indentation styles found.
a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'
In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:
$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 6d2ba65..8cc35dc 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@
bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@
config LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
bool "Locking event counts collection"
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Enable light-weight counting of various locking related events
in the system with minimal performance impact. This reduces
the chance of application behavior change because of timing
diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index ef17903..92f3b0d 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
choice
prompt "Alpha system type"
default ALPHA_GENERIC
- ---help---
+ help
This is the system type of your hardware. A "generic" kernel will
run on any supported Alpha system. However, if you configure a
kernel for your specific system, it will be faster and smaller.
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@
config ALPHA_QEMU
bool "Run under QEMU emulation"
depends on !ALPHA_GENERIC
- ---help---
+ help
Assume the presence of special features supported by QEMU PALcode
that reduce the overhead of system emulation.
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
bool "Use SRM as bootloader" if ALPHA_CABRIOLET || ALPHA_AVANTI_CH || ALPHA_EB64P || ALPHA_PC164 || ALPHA_TAKARA || ALPHA_EB164 || ALPHA_ALCOR || ALPHA_MIATA || ALPHA_LX164 || ALPHA_SX164 || ALPHA_NAUTILUS || ALPHA_NONAME
depends on TTY
default y if ALPHA_JENSEN || ALPHA_MIKASA || ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_LYNX || ALPHA_NORITAKE || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_EIGER || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_SHARK || ALPHA_MARVEL
- ---help---
+ help
There are two different types of booting firmware on Alphas: SRM,
which is command line driven, and ARC, which uses menus and arrow
keys. Details about the Linux/Alpha booting process are contained in
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
depends on ALPHA_SABLE || ALPHA_LYNX || ALPHA_RAWHIDE || ALPHA_DP264 || ALPHA_WILDFIRE || ALPHA_TITAN || ALPHA_GENERIC || ALPHA_SHARK || ALPHA_MARVEL
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@
default n if ALPHA_EV5 || ALPHA_EV56 || (ALPHA_EV4 && !ALPHA_LCA)
default n if !ALPHA_SRM && !ALPHA_GENERIC
default y if SMP
- ---help---
+ help
The Wait for Interrupt (WTINT) PALcall attempts to place the CPU
to sleep until the next interrupt. This may reduce the power
consumed, and the heat produced by the computer. However, it has
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
# LARGE_VMALLOC is racy, if you *really* need it then fix it first
config ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC
bool
- ---help---
+ help
Process creation and other aspects of virtual memory management can
be streamlined if we restrict the kernel to one PGD for all vmalloc
allocations. This equates to about 8GB.
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@
int "Verbose Printing Mode (0=off, 1=on, 2=all)"
depends on VERBOSE_MCHECK
default 1
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows the default printing mode to be set, and then
possibly overridden by a boot command argument.
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@
default HZ_128 if ALPHA_QEMU
default HZ_1200 if ALPHA_RAWHIDE
default HZ_1024
- ---help---
+ help
The frequency at which timer interrupts occur. A high frequency
minimizes latency, whereas a low frequency minimizes overhead of
process accounting. The later effect is especially significant
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
config SRM_ENV
tristate "SRM environment through procfs"
depends on PROC_FS
- ---help---
+ help
If you enable this option, a subdirectory inside /proc called
/proc/srm_environment will give you access to the all important
SRM environment variables (those which have a name) and also
diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig.debug b/arch/alpha/Kconfig.debug
index b88c7b6..f85f428 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig.debug
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
bool "Legacy kernel start address"
depends on ALPHA_GENERIC
default n
- ---help---
+ help
The 2.4 kernel changed the kernel start address from 0x310000
to 0x810000 to make room for the Wildfire's larger SRM console.
Recent consoles on Titan and Marvel machines also require the
diff --git a/arch/arc/Kconfig b/arch/arc/Kconfig
index 471ef22..fddc700 100644
--- a/arch/arc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arc/Kconfig
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
default "0" if !DISCONTIGMEM
default "1" if DISCONTIGMEM
depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
- ---help---
+ help
Accessing memory beyond 1GB (with or w/o PAE) requires 2 memory
zones.
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index bbac286..7b68cec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@
config SECCOMP
bool
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
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@
select EFI_STUB
select EFI_GENERIC_STUB
select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This option provides support for runtime services provided
by UEFI firmware (such as non-volatile variables, realtime
clock, and platform reset). A UEFI stub is also provided to
@@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@
config FPE_NWFPE
bool "NWFPE math emulation"
depends on (!AEABI || OABI_COMPAT) && !THUMB2_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include the NWFPE floating point emulator in the kernel.
This is necessary to run most binaries. Linux does not currently
support floating point hardware so you need to say Y here even if
@@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@
config FPE_FASTFPE
bool "FastFPE math emulation (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on (!AEABI || OABI_COMPAT) && !CPU_32v3
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to include the FAST floating point emulator in the kernel.
This is an experimental much faster emulator which now also has full
precision for the mantissa. It does not support any exceptions.
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
index 26a158e..80000a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
depends on MMU
select ARM_PTDUMP_CORE
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.
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
depends on MMU
select ARM_PTDUMP_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig
index 1730ee8..844aa58 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
select ISA
select ISA_DMA
select FORCE_PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you intend to run this kernel on the Compaq
Personal Server.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 7f9d384..fdca571 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@
config SECCOMP
bool "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
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@
depends on PM_SLEEP_SMP
select KEXEC_CORE
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
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
index f1c1f98..13489af 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
select HAVE_KVM_VCPU_RUN_PID_CHANGE
select TASKSTATS
select TASK_DELAY_ACCT
- ---help---
+ help
Support hosting virtualized guest machines.
If unsure, say N.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
bool "Virtual Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) support"
depends on HW_PERF_EVENTS
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for a virtual Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) in
virtual machines.
diff --git a/arch/hexagon/Kconfig b/arch/hexagon/Kconfig
index b7d404b..667cfc5 100644
--- a/arch/hexagon/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/hexagon/Kconfig
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
- ---help---
+ help
Qualcomm Hexagon is a processor architecture designed for high
performance and low power across a wide variety of applications.
config HEXAGON_PHYS_OFFSET
def_bool y
- ---help---
+ help
Platforms that don't load the kernel at zero set this.
config FRAME_POINTER
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
config HEXAGON_COMET
bool "Comet Board"
- ---help---
+ help
Support for the Comet platform.
endchoice
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
config SMP
bool "Multi-Processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
Enables SMP support in the kernel. If unsure, say "Y"
config NR_CPUS
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
range 2 6 if SMP
default "1" if !SMP
default "6" if SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 6 and the
minimum value which makes sense is 2.
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
choice
prompt "Kernel page size"
default PAGE_SIZE_4KB
- ---help---
+ help
Changes the default page size; use with caution.
config PAGE_SIZE_4KB
diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index 88b05b5..1fa2fe2 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
depends on SMP
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on. CPUs
can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#.
Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
bool "Support removal of Bootstrap Processor"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if your platform SAL will support removal of BSP with HOTPLUG_CPU
support.
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
bool "Force assumption that CPEI can be re-targeted"
depends on PERMIT_BSP_REMOVE
default n
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y if you need to force the assumption that CPEI can be re-targeted to
any cpu in the system. This hint is available via ACPI 3.0 specifications.
Tiger4 systems are capable of re-directing CPEI to any CPU other than BSP.
diff --git a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu
index bd2d29c..694c4fc 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
config ADVANCED
bool "Advanced configuration options"
depends on MMU
- ---help---
+ help
This gives you access to some advanced options for the CPU. The
defaults should be fine for most users, but these options may make
it possible for you to improve performance somewhat if you know what
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
config RMW_INSNS
bool "Use read-modify-write instructions"
depends on ADVANCED
- ---help---
+ help
This allows to use certain instructions that work with indivisible
read-modify-write bus cycles. While this is faster than the
workaround of disabling interrupts, it can conflict with DMA
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
config 060_WRITETHROUGH
bool "Use write-through caching for 68060 supervisor accesses"
depends on ADVANCED && M68060
- ---help---
+ help
The 68060 generally uses copyback caching of recently accessed data.
Copyback caching means that memory writes will be held in an on-chip
cache and only written back to memory some time later. Saying Y
diff --git a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.devices b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.devices
index 3e9b0b8..6a87b4a 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.devices
+++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.devices
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
config ATARI_ETHERNAT
bool "Atari EtherNAT Ethernet support"
depends on ATARI
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include support for the EtherNAT network adapter for the
CT/60 extension port.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
config ATARI_ETHERNEC
bool "Atari EtherNEC Ethernet support"
depends on ATARI_ROM_ISA
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y to include support for the EtherNEC network adapter for the
ROM port. The driver works by polling instead of interrupts, so it
is quite slow.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
config SERIAL_CONSOLE
bool "Support for serial port console"
depends on AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL=y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
diff --git a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine
index b23a66ba..a82651d 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine
+++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
choice
prompt "Kernel executes from"
- ---help---
+ help
Choose the memory type that the kernel will be running in.
config RAMKERNEL
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index eb1e86c..7f2dbfb 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -2741,7 +2741,7 @@
depends on RELOCATABLE
range 0x0 0x01000000
default "0x00100000"
- ---help---
+ help
A table of relocation data will be appended to the kernel binary
and parsed at boot to fix up the relocated kernel.
@@ -2755,7 +2755,7 @@
config RANDOMIZE_BASE
bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image"
depends on RELOCATABLE
- ---help---
+ help
Randomizes the physical and virtual address at which the
kernel image is loaded, as a security feature that
deters exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location
@@ -2773,7 +2773,7 @@
range 0x0 0x40000000 if EVA || 64BIT
range 0x0 0x08000000
default "0x01000000"
- ---help---
+ help
When kASLR is active, this provides the maximum offset that will
be applied to the kernel image. It should be set according to the
amount of physical RAM available in the target system minus
diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/mips/kvm/Kconfig
index b91d145..6f59302 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
select KVM_MMIO
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select SRCU
- ---help---
+ help
Support for hosting Guest kernels.
choice
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
config KVM_MIPS_TE
bool "Trap & Emulate"
- ---help---
+ help
Use trap and emulate to virtualize 32-bit guests in user mode. This
does not require any special hardware Virtualization support beyond
standard MIPS32/64 r2 or later, but it does require the guest kernel
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
config KVM_MIPS_VZ
bool "MIPS Virtualization (VZ) ASE"
- ---help---
+ help
Use the MIPS Virtualization (VZ) ASE to virtualize guests. This
supports running unmodified guest kernels (with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n),
but requires hardware support.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
bool "KVM/MIPS: Dynamic binary translation to reduce traps"
depends on KVM_MIPS_TE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
When running in Trap & Emulate mode patch privileged
instructions to reduce the number of traps.
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
config KVM_MIPS_DEBUG_COP0_COUNTERS
bool "Maintain counters for COP0 accesses"
depends on KVM
- ---help---
+ help
Maintain statistics for Guest COP0 accesses.
A histogram of COP0 accesses is printed when the VM is
shutdown.
diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index 92128f9..8e4c370 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
config PA7000
bool "PA7000/PA7100"
- ---help---
+ help
This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is
used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel
that can run on all 32-bit PA CPUs (albeit not optimally fast),
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
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
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
index 12885ed..549591d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
select KVM
select KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_32 host processors.
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
select KVM
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE if !KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
select SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU if IOMMU_SUPPORT && (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_POWERNV)
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified book3s_64 and book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_64 host processors.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
select KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select CMA
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified book3s_64 guest kernels in
virtual machines on POWER7 and newer processors that have
hypervisor mode available to the host.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
tristate "KVM support without using hypervisor mode in host"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR_POSSIBLE
- ---help---
+ help
Support running guest kernels in virtual machines on processors
without using hypervisor mode in the host, by running the
guest in user mode (problem state) and emulating all
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
config KVM_BOOK3S_HV_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed timing for hypervisor real-mode code"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Calculate time taken for each vcpu in the real-mode guest entry,
exit, and interrupt handling code, plus time spent in the guest
and in nap mode due to idle (cede) while other threads are still
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
config KVM_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed exit timing"
depends on KVM_E500V2 || KVM_E500MC
- ---help---
+ help
Calculate elapsed time for every exit/enter cycle. A per-vcpu
report is available in debugfs kvm/vm#_vcpu#_timing.
The overhead is relatively small, however it is not recommended for
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
select KVM
select KVM_MMIO
select MMU_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified E500 guest kernels in virtual machines on
E500v2 host processors.
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
select KVM_MMIO
select KVM_BOOKE_HV
select MMU_NOTIFIER
- ---help---
+ help
Support running unmodified E500MC/E5500/E6500 guest kernels in
virtual machines on E500MC/E5500/E6500 host processors.
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller
Specification) interrupt controller architecture used on
IBM POWER (pSeries) servers.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
index 5e6479d..fb7515b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
config KVM_GUEST
bool "KVM Guest support"
select EPAPR_PARAVIRT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
hypervisor. Overhead for the kernel when not running inside KVM should
be minimal.
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
config TAU_INT
bool "Interrupt driven TAU driver (DANGEROUS)"
depends on TAU
- ---help---
+ help
The TAU supports an interrupt driven mode which causes an interrupt
whenever the temperature goes out of range. This is the fastest way
to get notified the temp has exceeded a range. With this option off,
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
config TAU_AVERAGE
bool "Average high and low temp"
depends on TAU
- ---help---
+ help
The TAU hardware can compare the temperature to an upper and lower
bound. The default behavior is to show both the upper and lower
bound in /proc/cpuinfo. If the range is large, the temperature is
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index d349603..87737ec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
bool 'Large physical address support' if E500 || PPC_86xx
depends on (44x || E500 || PPC_86xx) && !PPC_83xx && !PPC_82xx
select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for larger than 32-bit physical
addresses. This feature may not be available on all cores.
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
config ALTIVEC
bool "AltiVec Support"
depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64 || (PPC_E500MC && PPC64)
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for the Altivec extensions to the
PowerPC processor. The kernel currently supports saving and restoring
altivec registers, and turning on the 'altivec enable' bit so user
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
config VSX
bool "VSX Support"
depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && ALTIVEC && PPC_FPU
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for the Vector Scaler extensions
to the PowerPC processor. The kernel currently supports saving and
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
bool "SPE Support"
depends on SPE_POSSIBLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables kernel support for the Signal Processing
Extensions (SPE) to the PowerPC processor. The kernel currently
supports saving and restoring SPE registers, and turning on the
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
depends on PPC_BOOK3S || PPC_BOOK3E || FSL_BOOKE || PPC_47x
select GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support" if !FORCE_SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y. Note that the kernel does not currently
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index f854faf..1948249 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
config QDIO
def_tristate y
prompt "QDIO support"
- ---help---
+ help
This driver provides the Queued Direct I/O base support for
IBM System z.
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug b/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug
index 1905275..761fe2b 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
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.
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig
index def3b60..67a8e77 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
def_bool y
prompt "KVM"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
select HAVE_KVM_NO_POLL
select SRCU
select KVM_VFIO
- ---help---
+ help
Support hosting paravirtualized guest machines using the SIE
virtualization capability on the mainframe. This should work
on any 64bit machine.
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
config KVM_S390_UCONTROL
bool "Userspace controlled virtual machines"
depends on KVM
- ---help---
+ help
Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN users to create KVM virtual machines that are
controlled by userspace.
diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig
index a7cc146..9fc2b010 100644
--- a/arch/sh/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sh/Kconfig
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP)
default MEMORY_START
- ---help---
+ help
This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded
and is ordinarily the same as MEMORY_START.
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
diff --git a/arch/sh/cchips/Kconfig b/arch/sh/cchips/Kconfig
index 6be5ddec..efde2ed 100644
--- a/arch/sh/cchips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sh/cchips/Kconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
config HD64461
bool "Hitachi HD64461 companion chip support"
- ---help---
+ help
The Hitachi HD64461 provides an interface for
the SH7709 CPU, supporting a LCD controller,
CRT color controller, IrDA up to 4 Mbps, and a
diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/Kconfig b/arch/sh/mm/Kconfig
index 6c39d24..703d306 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/Kconfig
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
config MEMORY_START
hex "Physical memory start address"
default "0x08000000"
- ---help---
+ help
Computers built with Hitachi SuperH processors always
map the ROM starting at address zero. But the processor
does not specify the range that RAM takes.
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index 0e4f389..5bf2dc1 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
bool
depends on SPARC32
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
system console (the system console is the device which receives all
kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
select USB_EHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
select USB_UHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO
select USB_UHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here if you are running on a SPARC-LEON processor.
The LEON processor is a synthesizable VHDL model of the
SPARC-v8 standard. LEON is part of the GRLIB collection of
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
config UBOOT_LOAD_ADDR
hex "uImage Load Address"
default 0x40004000
- ---help---
+ help
U-Boot kernel load address, the address in physical address space
where u-boot will place the Linux kernel before booting it.
This address is normally the base address of main memory + 0x4000.
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
config UBOOT_FLASH_ADDR
hex "uImage.o Load Address"
default 0x00080000
- ---help---
+ help
Optional setting only affecting the uImage.o ELF-image used to
download the uImage file to the target using a ELF-loader other than
U-Boot. It may for example be used to download an uImage to FLASH with
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@
config UBOOT_ENTRY_ADDR
hex "uImage Entry Address"
default 0xf0004000
- ---help---
+ help
Do not change this unless you know what you're doing. This is
hardcoded by the SPARC32 and LEON port.
diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig b/arch/um/Kconfig
index 96ab702..9318dc6 100644
--- a/arch/um/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
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
diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug b/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
index 85726ee..315d368 100644
--- a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly to stdout.
This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 10dae8b..8ea987d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
config 64BIT
bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(ARCH)" = "x86"
default "$(ARCH)" != "i386"
- ---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
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
- ---help---
+ help
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, say N. If you have a system with more
than one CPU, say Y.
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
config X86_FEATURE_NAMES
bool "Processor feature human-readable names" if EMBEDDED
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles in a table of x86 feature bits and corresponding
names. This is required to support /proc/cpuinfo and a few kernel
messages. You can disable this to save space, at the expense of
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
config X86_X2APIC
bool "Support x2apic"
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && (IRQ_REMAP || HYPERVISOR_GUEST)
- ---help---
+ help
This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI
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
@@ -481,13 +481,13 @@
config X86_BIGSMP
bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
depends on SMP
- ---help---
+ 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
- ---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.)
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
default y
- ---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.)
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@
depends on SMP
depends on X86_X2APIC
depends on PCI_MMCONFIG
- ---help---
+ help
Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. Needed to
enable more than ~168 cores.
If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
depends on X86_64 && PCI
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
depends on SMP
- ---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.
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
depends on EFI
depends on X86_X2APIC
depends on PCI
- ---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.
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
config X86_GOLDFISH
bool "Goldfish (Virtual Platform)"
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for the Goldfish virtual platform used primarily
for Android development. Unless you are building for the Android
Goldfish emulator say N here.
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@
select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
select OF
select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
- ---help---
+ help
Select for the Intel CE media processor (CE4100) SOC.
This option compiles in support for the CE4100 SOC for settop
boxes and media devices.
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@
select APB_TIMER
select INTEL_SCU_PCI
select MFD_INTEL_MSIC
- ---help---
+ help
Select to build a kernel capable of supporting Intel MID (Mobile
Internet Device) platform systems which do not have the PCI legacy
interfaces. If you are building for a PC class system say N here.
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
select IOSF_MBI
select INTEL_IMR
select COMMON_CLK
- ---help---
+ help
Select to include support for Quark X1000 SoC.
Say Y here if you have a Quark based system such as the Arduino
compatible Intel Galileo.
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@
select COMMON_CLK
select PINCTRL
select IOSF_MBI
- ---help---
+ help
Select to build support for Intel Low Power Subsystem such as
found on Intel Lynxpoint PCH. Selecting this option enables
things like clock tree (common clock framework) and pincontrol
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@
depends on ACPI
select COMMON_CLK
select PINCTRL
- ---help---
+ help
Select to interpret AMD specific ACPI device to platform device
such as I2C, UART, GPIO found on AMD Carrizo and later chipsets.
I2C and UART depend on COMMON_CLK to set clock. GPIO driver is
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@
config IOSF_MBI
tristate "Intel SoC IOSF Sideband support for SoC platforms"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables sideband register access support for Intel SoC
platforms. On these platforms the IOSF sideband is used in lieu of
MSR's for some register accesses, mostly but not limited to thermal
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@
config IOSF_MBI_DEBUG
bool "Enable IOSF sideband access through debugfs"
depends on IOSF_MBI && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to expose the IOSF sideband access registers (MCR,
MDR, MCRX) through debugfs to write and read register information from
different units on the SoC. This is most useful for obtaining device
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
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.
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures"
depends on X86_32 && SMP
depends on X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
- ---help---
+ help
This option compiles in the bigsmp and STA2X11 default
subarchitectures. It is intended for a generic binary
kernel. If you select them all, kernel will probe it one by
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@
select SWIOTLB
select MFD_STA2X11
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This adds support for boards based on the STA2X11 IO-Hub,
a.k.a. "ConneXt". The chip is used in place of the standard
PC chipset, so all "standard" peripherals are missing. If this
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@
config X86_32_IRIS
tristate "Eurobraille/Iris poweroff module"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
The Iris machines from EuroBraille do not have APM or ACPI support
to shut themselves down properly. A special I/O sequence is
needed to do so, which is what this module does at
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@
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,
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@
menuconfig HYPERVISOR_GUEST
bool "Linux guest support"
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to enable options for running Linux under various hyper-
visors. This option enables basic hypervisor detection and platform
setup.
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@
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
@@ -775,14 +775,14 @@
config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals. Specifically, BUG if
a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
depends on PARAVIRT && SMP
- ---help---
+ help
Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
(for example, block the virtual CPU rather than spinning).
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@
select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
select ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
hypervisor. It includes a paravirtualized clock, so that instead
of relying on a PIT (or probably other) emulation by the
@@ -818,14 +818,14 @@
config PVH
bool "Support for running PVH guests"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines
as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
config KVM_DEBUG_FS
bool "Enable debug information for KVM Guests in debugfs"
depends on KVM_GUEST && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables collection of various statistics for KVM guest.
Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option
may incur significant overhead.
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@
config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting"
depends on PARAVIRT
- ---help---
+ help
Select this option to enable fine granularity task steal time
accounting. Time spent executing other tasks in parallel with
the current vCPU is discounted from the vCPU power. To account for
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@
bool "Jailhouse non-root cell support"
depends on X86_64 && PCI
select X86_PM_TIMER
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows to run Linux as guest in a Jailhouse non-root
cell. You can leave this option disabled if you only want to start
Jailhouse and run Linux afterwards in the root cell.
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@
config HPET_TIMER
def_bool X86_64
prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
- ---help---
+ 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.
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@
default y
select DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK
bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EXPERT
- ---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
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@
select IOMMU_HELPER
select SWIOTLB
depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB
- ---help---
+ help
Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron
GART based hardware IOMMUs.
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@
bool "Enable Maximum number of SMP Processors and NUMA Nodes"
depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL
select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
- ---help---
+ help
Enable maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
If unsure, say N.
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@
int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
range NR_CPUS_RANGE_BEGIN NR_CPUS_RANGE_END
default NR_CPUS_DEFAULT
- ---help---
+ 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
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@
def_bool y
prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
depends on SMP
- ---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.
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@
select X86_INTEL_PSTATE
select CPU_FREQ
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a
core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows
certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@
bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" if !PCI_MSI
default PCI_MSI
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
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@
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.
@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@
config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
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
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@
bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@
config X86_MCELOG_LEGACY
bool "Support for deprecated /dev/mcelog character device"
depends on X86_MCE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable support for /dev/mcelog which is needed by the old mcelog
userspace logging daemon. Consider switching to the new generation
rasdaemon solution.
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@
def_bool y
prompt "Intel MCE features"
depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
the thermal monitor.
@@ -1132,14 +1132,14 @@
def_bool y
prompt "AMD MCE features"
depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && AMD_NB
- ---help---
+ help
Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
the DRAM Error Threshold.
config X86_ANCIENT_MCE
bool "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks"
depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip
systems. These typically need to be enabled explicitly on the command
line.
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@
config X86_MCE_INJECT
depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && DEBUG_FS
tristate "Machine check injector support"
- ---help---
+ help
Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes.
If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel
QA it is safe to say n.
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@
config X86_LEGACY_VM86
bool "Legacy VM86 support"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows user programs to put the CPU into V8086
mode, which is an 80286-era approximation of 16-bit real mode.
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@
bool "Enable support for 16-bit segments" if EXPERT
default y
depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
- ---help---
+ help
This option is required by programs like Wine to run 16-bit
protected mode legacy code on x86 processors. Disabling
this option saves about 300 bytes on i386, or around 6K text
@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@
bool "Enable vsyscall emulation" if EXPERT
default y
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
This enables emulation of the legacy vsyscall page. Disabling
it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except
that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@
config X86_IOPL_IOPERM
bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation"
default y
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary
for legacy applications.
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@
config TOSHIBA
tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This adds a driver to safely access the System Management Mode of
the CPU on Toshiba portables with a genuine Toshiba BIOS. It does
not work on models with a Phoenix BIOS. The System Management Mode
@@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@
tristate "Dell i8k legacy laptop support"
select HWMON
select SENSORS_DELL_SMM
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables legacy /proc/i8k userspace interface in hwmon
dell-smm-hwmon driver. Character file /proc/i8k reports bios version,
temperature and allows controlling fan speeds of Dell laptops via
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@
config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
bool "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This enables chipset and/or board specific fixups to be done
in order to get reboot to work correctly. This is only needed on
some combinations of hardware and BIOS. The symptom, for which
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@
default y
depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
If you say Y here, you will be able to update the microcode on
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
@@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@
depends on MICROCODE
default MICROCODE
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
processors.
@@ -1335,7 +1335,7 @@
bool "AMD microcode loading support"
depends on MICROCODE
select FW_LOADER
- ---help---
+ help
If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
processors will be enabled.
@@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@
bool "Ancient loading interface (DEPRECATED)"
default n
depends on MICROCODE
- ---help---
+ help
DO NOT USE THIS! This is the ancient /dev/cpu/microcode interface
which was used by userspace tools like iucode_tool and microcode.ctl.
It is inadequate because it runs too late to be able to properly
@@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@
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.
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@
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
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@
config NOHIGHMEM
bool "off"
- ---help---
+ help
Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
Gigabytes large. That means that, if you have a large amount of
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@
config HIGHMEM4G
bool "4GB"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@
bool "64GB"
depends on !M486 && !M586 && !M586TSC && !M586MMX && !MGEODE_LX && !MGEODEGX1 && !MCYRIXIII && !MELAN && !MWINCHIPC6 && !WINCHIP3D && !MK6
select X86_PAE
- ---help---
+ help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
@@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@
prompt "Memory split" if EXPERT
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
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@
depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G
select PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
select SWIOTLB
- ---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
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@
select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
5-level paging enables access to larger address space:
upto 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of
physical address space.
@@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@
config X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES
def_bool y
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel
linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise
supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing
@@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@
config X86_CPA_STATISTICS
bool "Enable statistic for Change Page Attribute"
depends on DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
Expose statistics about the Change Page Attribute mechanism, which
helps to determine the effectiveness of preserving large and huge
page mappings when mapping protections are changed.
@@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@
select DYNAMIC_PHYSICAL_MASK
select ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED
- ---help---
+ help
Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory.
This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory
Encryption (SME).
@@ -1537,7 +1537,7 @@
bool "Activate AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) by default"
default y
depends on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
- ---help---
+ help
Say yes to have system memory encrypted by default if running on
an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory Encryption (SME).
@@ -1553,7 +1553,7 @@
depends on SMP
depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && X86_BIGSMP)
default y if X86_BIGSMP
- ---help---
+ help
Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support.
The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@
def_bool y
prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Enable AMD NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if
you have a multi processor AMD system. This uses an old method to
read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin Northbridge
@@ -1584,13 +1584,13 @@
prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
select ACPI_NUMA
- ---help---
+ help
Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
config NUMA_EMU
bool "NUMA emulation"
depends on 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.
@@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@
default "6" if X86_64
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 accommodate various tables.
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@
config HIGHPTE
bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
depends on HIGHMEM
- ---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
@@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@
config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
bool "Check for low memory corruption"
- ---help---
+ 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
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@
bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
on or off.
@@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@
int "Amount of low memory, in kilobytes, to reserve for the BIOS"
default 64
range 4 640
- ---help---
+ help
Specify the amount of low memory to reserve for the BIOS.
The first page contains BIOS data structures that the kernel
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@
bool
depends on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 && (M486SX || MELAN)
- ---help---
+ help
Linux can emulate a math coprocessor (used for floating point
operations) if you don't have one. 486DX and Pentium processors have
a math coprocessor built in, 486SX and 386 do not, unless you added
@@ -1756,7 +1756,7 @@
config MTRR
def_bool y
prompt "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control
processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful if you have
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@
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.
@@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@
range 0 1
default "0"
depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
- ---help---
+ help
Enable mtrr cleanup default value
config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
@@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@
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.
@@ -1823,7 +1823,7 @@
def_bool y
prompt "x86 PAT support" if EXPERT
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
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@
config ARCH_RANDOM
def_bool y
prompt "x86 architectural random number generator" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Enable the x86 architectural RDRAND instruction
(Intel Bull Mountain technology) to generate random numbers.
If supported, this is a high bandwidth, cryptographically
@@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@
config X86_SMAP
def_bool y
prompt "Supervisor Mode Access Prevention" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a security
feature in newer Intel processors. There is a small
performance cost if this enabled and turned on; there is
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@
config X86_UMIP
def_bool y
prompt "User Mode Instruction Prevention" if EXPERT
- ---help---
+ help
User Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is a security feature in
some x86 processors. If enabled, a general protection fault is
issued if the SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW or STR instructions are
@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@
depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
- ---help---
+ help
Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing
page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
page tables when an application changes protection domains.
@@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@
depends on ACPI
select UCS2_STRING
select EFI_RUNTIME_WRAPPERS
- ---help---
+ help
This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
available (such as the EFI variable services).
@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@
depends on EFI && !X86_USE_3DNOW
depends on $(cc-option,-mabi=ms) || X86_32
select RELOCATABLE
- ---help---
+ help
This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.
@@ -1964,7 +1964,7 @@
config EFI_MIXED
bool "EFI mixed-mode support"
depends on EFI_STUB && X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this feature allows a 64-bit kernel to be booted
on a 32-bit firmware, provided that your CPU supports 64-bit
mode.
@@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@
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
@@ -1996,7 +1996,7 @@
config KEXEC
bool "kexec system call"
select KEXEC_CORE
- ---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
@@ -2017,7 +2017,7 @@
depends on X86_64
depends on CRYPTO=y
depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y
- ---help---
+ help
This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument
for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
@@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@
config KEXEC_SIG
bool "Verify kernel signature during kexec_file_load() syscall"
depends on KEXEC_FILE
- ---help---
+ help
This option makes the kexec_file_load() syscall check for a valid
signature of the kernel image. The image can still be loaded without
@@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@
config KEXEC_SIG_FORCE
bool "Require a valid signature in kexec_file_load() syscall"
depends on KEXEC_SIG
- ---help---
+ help
This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for
the kexec_file_load() syscall.
@@ -2052,13 +2052,13 @@
depends on KEXEC_SIG
depends on SIGNED_PE_FILE_VERIFICATION
select SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING
- ---help---
+ help
Enable bzImage signature verification support.
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
@@ -2072,14 +2072,14 @@
config KEXEC_JUMP
bool "kexec jump"
depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
- ---help---
+ help
Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
code in physical address mode via KEXEC
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EXPERT || CRASH_DUMP)
default "0x1000000"
- ---help---
+ help
This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
@@ -2120,7 +2120,7 @@
config RELOCATABLE
bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
default y
- ---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,
@@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@
bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)"
depends on RELOCATABLE
default y
- ---help---
+ help
In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR),
this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image
is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel
@@ -2179,7 +2179,7 @@
default "0x200000"
range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32
range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64
- ---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.
@@ -2203,7 +2203,7 @@
config DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
bool
- ---help---
+ help
This option makes base addresses of vmalloc and vmemmap as well as
__PAGE_OFFSET movable during boot.
@@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@
depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE
select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
default RANDOMIZE_BASE
- ---help---
+ help
Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections
(physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This security feature
makes exploits relying on predictable memory locations less reliable.
@@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@
default "0x0"
range 0x1 0x40 if MEMORY_HOTPLUG
range 0x0 0x40
- ---help---
+ help
Define the padding in terabytes added to the existing physical
memory size during kernel memory randomization. It is useful
for memory hotplug support but reduces the entropy available for
@@ -2247,7 +2247,7 @@
config BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0
bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
- ---help---
+ help
Set whether default state of cpu0_hotpluggable is on or off.
Say Y here to enable CPU0 hotplug by default. If this switch
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@
def_bool n
prompt "Debug CPU0 hotplug"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option offlines CPU0 (if CPU0 can be offlined) as
soon as possible and boots up userspace with CPU0 offlined. User
can online CPU0 back after boot time.
@@ -2291,7 +2291,7 @@
def_bool n
prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
depends on COMPAT_32
- ---help---
+ help
Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address
indicated in its segment table.
@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@
config CMDLINE_BOOL
bool "Built-in kernel command line"
- ---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
@@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@
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
@@ -2403,7 +2403,7 @@
config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
depends on CMDLINE_BOOL && CMDLINE != ""
- ---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.
@@ -2413,7 +2413,7 @@
config MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
bool "Enable the LDT (local descriptor table)" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86
Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system
call. This is required to run 16-bit or segmented code such as
@@ -2477,7 +2477,7 @@
menuconfig APM
tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
depends on X86_32 && PM_SLEEP
- ---help---
+ help
APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
@@ -2537,14 +2537,14 @@
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.
config APM_DO_ENABLE
bool "Enable PM at boot time"
- ---help---
+ help
Enable APM features at boot time. From page 36 of the APM BIOS
specification: "When disabled, the APM BIOS does not automatically
power manage devices, enter the Standby State, enter the Suspend
@@ -2562,7 +2562,7 @@
config APM_CPU_IDLE
depends on 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
@@ -2573,7 +2573,7 @@
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
@@ -2586,7 +2586,7 @@
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
@@ -2611,7 +2611,7 @@
prompt "PCI access mode"
depends on X86_32 && PCI
default PCI_GOANY
- ---help---
+ help
On PCI systems, the BIOS can be used to detect the PCI devices and
determine their configuration. However, some old PCI motherboards
have BIOS bugs and may crash if this is done. Also, some embedded
@@ -2708,7 +2708,7 @@
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
@@ -2717,7 +2717,7 @@
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
@@ -2729,7 +2729,7 @@
tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
depends on SCx200
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
@@ -2744,20 +2744,20 @@
select OF_PROMTREE
select IRQ_DOMAIN
select OLPC_EC
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
XO hardware.
config OLPC_XO1_PM
bool "OLPC XO-1 Power Management"
depends on OLPC && MFD_CS5535=y && PM_SLEEP
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for poweroff and suspend of the OLPC XO-1 laptop.
config OLPC_XO1_RTC
bool "OLPC XO-1 Real Time Clock"
depends on OLPC_XO1_PM && RTC_DRV_CMOS
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for the XO-1 real time clock, which can be used as a
programmable wakeup source.
@@ -2766,7 +2766,7 @@
depends on OLPC && OLPC_XO1_PM && GPIO_CS5535=y
depends on INPUT=y
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1 laptop:
- EC-driven system wakeups
- Power button
@@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@
bool "OLPC XO-1.5 SCI extras"
depends on OLPC && ACPI
select POWER_SUPPLY
- ---help---
+ help
Add support for SCI-based features of the OLPC XO-1.5 laptop:
- EC-driven system wakeups
- AC adapter status updates
@@ -2788,7 +2788,7 @@
config ALIX
bool "PCEngines ALIX System Support (LED setup)"
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the PCEngines ALIX.
At present this just sets up LEDs for GPIO control on
ALIX2/3/6 boards. However, other system specific setup should
@@ -2802,14 +2802,14 @@
config NET5501
bool "Soekris Engineering net5501 System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
select GPIOLIB
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Soekris Engineering net5501.
config GEOS
bool "Traverse Technologies GEOS System Support (LEDS, GPIO, etc)"
select GPIOLIB
depends on DMI
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Traverse Technologies GEOS.
config TS5500
@@ -2818,7 +2818,7 @@
select CHECK_SIGNATURE
select NEW_LEDS
select LEDS_CLASS
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables system support for the Technologic Systems TS-5500.
endif # X86_32
@@ -2865,7 +2865,7 @@
select BINFMT_ELF
select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
- ---help---
+ help
Include code to run legacy 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.
@@ -2874,13 +2874,13 @@
tristate "IA32 a.out support"
depends on IA32_EMULATION
depends on BROKEN
- ---help---
+ help
Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
config X86_X32
bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode"
depends on X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
Include code to run binaries for the x32 native 32-bit ABI
for 64-bit processors. An x32 process gets access to the
full 64-bit register file and wide data path while leaving
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index bc3a497..814fe0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
prompt "Processor family"
default M686 if X86_32
default GENERIC_CPU if X86_64
- ---help---
+ help
This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is
used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel
that can run on all supported x86 CPU types (albeit not
@@ -53,21 +53,21 @@
config M486SX
bool "486SX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an 486-class CPU without an FPU such as
AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5S.
config M486
bool "486DX"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an 486-class CPU such as AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel
486DX/DX2/DX4 and UMC U5D.
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.
@@ -75,21 +75,21 @@
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.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
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
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
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
@@ -116,14 +116,14 @@
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
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
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.
@@ -167,14 +167,14 @@
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.
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
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).
@@ -190,13 +190,13 @@
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.
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
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
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
config MELAN
bool "AMD Elan"
depends on X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for an AMD Elan processor.
Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors!
@@ -222,19 +222,19 @@
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
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
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.
@@ -254,14 +254,14 @@
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
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
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
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
config MATOM
bool "Intel Atom"
- ---help---
+ help
Select this for the Intel Atom platform. Intel Atom CPUs have an
in-order pipelining architecture and thus can benefit from
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
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.
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
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
@@ -397,14 +397,14 @@
menuconfig PROCESSOR_SELECT
bool "Supported processor vendors" if EXPERT
- ---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
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
default y
bool "Support Cyrix processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
depends on M486SX || M486 || M586 || M586TSC || M586MMX || (EXPERT && !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
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@
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
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR
default y
bool "Support Centaur processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
- ---help---
+ help
This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Centaur processors
You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
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
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
default y
bool "Support UMC processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
depends on M486SX || M486 || (EXPERT && !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
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index fdf1431..0dd319e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
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.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
port.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
bool "Early printk via the xHCI debug port"
depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
- ---help---
+ help
Write kernel log output directly into the xHCI debug port.
One use for this feature is kernel debugging, for example when your
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
depends on EFI
select PTDUMP_CORE
- ---help---
+ help
Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
X86-only for now.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
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
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
config IOMMU_LEAK
bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_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.
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && INSTRUCTION_DECODER
depends on !COMPILE_TEST
- ---help---
+ help
Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
decoder code.
@@ -133,25 +133,25 @@
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.
@@ -161,19 +161,19 @@
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 DEBUG_ENTRY
bool "Debug low-level entry code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
exits or otherwise impact performance.
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
bool "NMI Selftest"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
- ---help---
+ help
Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
that the NMI behaves correctly.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
depends on INTEL_IMR
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default y
- ---help---
+ help
If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
depends on PCI
select DEBUG_FS
select IOSF_MBI
- ---help---
+ help
This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
default UNWINDER_ORC if X86_64
default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER if X86_32
- ---help---
+ help
This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
livepatch, lockdep, and more.
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
bool "ORC unwinder"
depends on X86_64
select STACK_VALIDATION
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
select FRAME_POINTER
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
stack traces.
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
bool "Guess unwinder"
depends on EXPERT
depends on !STACKDEPOT
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/Kconfig b/arch/x86/events/Kconfig
index 4a809c6..39d9ded 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/events/Kconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
tristate "Intel uncore performance events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CPU_SUP_INTEL && PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for Intel uncore performance events. These are
available on NehalemEX and more modern processors.
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
tristate "Intel/AMD rapl performance events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) && PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for Intel and AMD rapl performance events for power
monitoring on modern processors.
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@
tristate "Intel cstate performance events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CPU_SUP_INTEL && PCI
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Include support for Intel cstate performance events for power
monitoring on modern processors.
config PERF_EVENTS_AMD_POWER
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CPU_SUP_AMD
tristate "AMD Processor Power Reporting Mechanism"
- ---help---
+ help
Provide power reporting mechanism support for AMD processors.
Currently, it leverages X86_FEATURE_ACC_POWER
(CPUID Fn8000_0007_EDX[12]) interface to calculate the
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
index d8154e0..b277a2d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
bool "Virtualization"
depends on HAVE_KVM || X86
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
select KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
select KVM_VFIO
select SRCU
- ---help---
+ help
Support hosting fully virtualized guest machines using hardware
virtualization extensions. You will need a fairly recent
processor equipped with virtualization extensions. You will also
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
config KVM_INTEL
tristate "KVM for Intel (and compatible) processors support"
depends on KVM && IA32_FEAT_CTL
- ---help---
+ help
Provides support for KVM on processors equipped with Intel's VT
extensions, a.k.a. Virtual Machine Extensions (VMX).
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
config KVM_AMD
tristate "KVM for AMD processors support"
depends on KVM
- ---help---
+ help
Provides support for KVM on AMD processors equipped with the AMD-V
(SVM) extensions.
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@
bool "AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) support"
depends on KVM_AMD && X86_64
depends on CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP && !(KVM_AMD=y && CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD=m)
- ---help---
+ help
Provides support for launching Encrypted VMs on AMD processors.
config KVM_MMU_AUDIT
bool "Audit KVM MMU"
depends on KVM && TRACEPOINTS
- ---help---
+ help
This option adds a R/W kVM module parameter 'mmu_audit', which allows
auditing of KVM MMU events at runtime.
diff --git a/arch/x86/ras/Kconfig b/arch/x86/ras/Kconfig
index 9ad6842..7488c71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ras/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/ras/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
config RAS_CEC
bool "Correctable Errors Collector"
depends on X86_MCE && MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_FS
- ---help---
+ help
This is a small cache which collects correctable memory errors per 4K
page PFN and counts their repeated occurrence. Once the counter for a
PFN overflows, we try to soft-offline that page as we take it to mean
