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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 26 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 1bb52e2ca02e..cbee4199689c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -201,9 +201,6 @@ config X86_TRAMPOLINE depends on X86_SMP || (X86_VOYAGER && SMP) || (64BIT && ACPI_SLEEP) default y -config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION - def_bool y - config KTIME_SCALAR def_bool X86_32 source "init/Kconfig" @@ -1062,6 +1059,29 @@ config HIGHPTE low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table entries in high memory. +config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION + bool "Check for low memory corruption" + default y + 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 + setting "memory_corruption_check=1" on the kernel command + line. By default it scans the low 64k of memory every 60 + seconds; see the memory_corruption_check_size and + memory_corruption_check_period parameters in + Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to adjust this. + + When enabled with the default parameters, this option has + almost no overhead, as it reserves a relatively small amount + of memory and scans it infrequently. It both detects corruption + and prevents it from affecting the running system. + + It is, however, intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable + BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, + you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that + memory. + config MATH_EMULATION bool prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 |