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diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 8ff1c6fb5aa..ea70359b02d 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -182,6 +182,17 @@ config X86_ES7000
endchoice
+config PARAVIRT
+ bool "Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Paravirtualization is a way of running multiple instances of
+ Linux on the same machine, under a hypervisor. This option
+ changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
+ under a hypervisor, improving performance significantly.
+ However, when run without a hypervisor the kernel is
+ theoretically slower. If in doubt, say N.
+
config ACPI_SRAT
bool
default y
@@ -443,7 +454,8 @@ source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
choice
prompt "High Memory Support"
- default NOHIGHMEM
+ default HIGHMEM4G if !X86_NUMAQ
+ default HIGHMEM64G if X86_NUMAQ
config NOHIGHMEM
bool "off"
@@ -710,20 +722,6 @@ config BOOT_IOREMAP
depends on (((X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && NUMA) || (X86 && EFI))
default y
-config REGPARM
- bool "Use register arguments"
- default y
- help
- Compile the kernel with -mregparm=3. This instructs gcc to use
- a more efficient function call ABI which passes the first three
- arguments of a function call via registers, which results in denser
- and faster code.
-
- If this option is disabled, then the default ABI of passing
- arguments via the stack is used.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config SECCOMP
bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
depends on PROC_FS
@@ -773,23 +771,39 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
PHYSICAL_START.
For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
-config PHYSICAL_START
- hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
+config RELOCATABLE
+ bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ This build a kernel image that retains relocation information
+ so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
+ The relocations tend to the kernel binary about 10% larger,
+ but are discarded at runtime.
+
+ One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
+ must live at a different physical address than the primary
+ kernel.
- default "0x1000000" if CRASH_DUMP
+config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
+ hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
default "0x100000"
+ range 0x2000 0x400000
help
- This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. Normally
- for regular kernels this value is 0x100000 (1MB). 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
- after panic. The default value for crash dump kernels is
- 0x1000000 (16MB). This can also be set based on the "X" value as
- specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter
- passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as
- crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at
- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps.
+ 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.
+
+ If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
+ CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set, kernel will move itself to nearest
+ address aligned to above value and run from there.
+
+ If bootloader loads the kernel at a non-aligned address and
+ CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, kernel will ignore the run time
+ load address and decompress itself to the address it has been
+ compiled for and run from there. The address for which kernel is
+ compiled already meets above alignment restrictions. Hence the
+ end result is that kernel runs from a physical address meeting
+ above alignment restrictions.
Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.