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# IA32-specific X86 subarchitecture options

# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corp.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

if !X86_64

config NESTED_INTERRUPTS
	bool "Enable nested interrupts"
	default y
	help
	  This option enables support for nested interrupts.

menu "Memory Layout Options"

config IDT_NUM_VECTORS
	int "Number of IDT vectors"
	default 256
	range 32 256
	help
	  This option specifies the number of interrupt vector entries in the
	  Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT). By default all 256 vectors are
	  supported in an IDT requiring 2048 bytes of memory.

config SET_GDT
	bool "Setup GDT as part of boot process"
	default y
	help
	  This option sets up the GDT as part of the boot process. However,
	  this may conflict with some security scenarios where the GDT is
	  already appropriately set by an earlier bootloader stage, in which
	  case this should be disabled. If disabled, the global _gdt pointer
	  will not be available.

config GDT_DYNAMIC
	bool "Store GDT in RAM so that it can be modified"
	depends on SET_GDT
	help
	  This option stores the GDT in RAM instead of ROM, so that it may
	  be modified at runtime at the expense of some memory.

endmenu

menu "Processor Capabilities"

config X86_ENABLE_TSS
	bool
	help
	  This hidden option enables defining a Task State Segment (TSS) for
	  kernel execution. This is needed to handle double-faults or
	  do privilege elevation. It also defines a special TSS and handler
	  for correctly handling double-fault exceptions, instead of just
	  letting the system triple-fault and reset.

config X86_STACK_PROTECTION
	bool
	default y if HW_STACK_PROTECTION
	select THREAD_STACK_INFO
	select SET_GDT
	select GDT_DYNAMIC
	select X86_ENABLE_TSS
	help
	  This option leverages the MMU to cause a system fatal error if the
	  bounds of the current process stack are overflowed. This is done
	  by preceding all stack areas with a 4K guard page.

config X86_USERSPACE
	bool
	default y if USERSPACE
	select THREAD_STACK_INFO
	select SET_GDT
	select GDT_DYNAMIC
	select X86_ENABLE_TSS
	help
	  This option enables APIs to drop a thread's privileges down to ring 3,
	  supporting user-level threads that are protected from each other and
	  from crashing the kernel.

config X86_PAE
	bool "Use PAE page tables"
	default y
	depends on X86_MMU
	help
	  If enabled, use PAE-style page tables instead of 32-bit page tables.
	  The advantage is support for the Execute Disable bit, at a cost of
	  more memory for paging structures.

menu "Architecture Floating Point Options"

if CPU_HAS_FPU

config SSE
	bool "SSE registers"
	depends on FPU
	help
	  This option enables the use of SSE registers by threads.

config SSE_FP_MATH
	bool "Compiler-generated SSEx instructions"
	depends on SSE
	help
	  This option allows the compiler to generate SSEx instructions for
	  performing floating point math. This can greatly improve performance
	  when exactly the same operations are to be performed on multiple
	  data objects; however, it can also significantly reduce performance
	  when preemptive task switches occur because of the larger register
	  set that must be saved and restored.

	  Disabling this option means that the compiler utilizes only the
	  x87 instruction set for floating point operations.

config EAGER_FPU_SHARING
	bool
	depends on FPU
	depends on USERSPACE
	default y if !X86_NO_LAZY_FP
	help
	  This hidden option unconditionally saves/restores the FPU/SIMD
	  register state on every context switch.

	  Mitigates CVE-2018-3665, but incurs a performance hit.

	  For vulnerable systems that process sensitive information in the
	  FPU register set, should be used any time CONFIG_FPU is
	  enabled, regardless if the FPU is used by one thread or multiple.

config LAZY_FPU_SHARING
	bool
	depends on FPU
	depends on !EAGER_FPU_SHARING
	depends on FPU_SHARING
	default y if X86_NO_LAZY_FP || !USERSPACE
	help
	  This hidden option allows multiple threads to use the floating point
	  registers, using logic to lazily save/restore the floating point
	  register state on context switch.

	  On Intel Core processors, may be vulnerable to exploits which allows
	  malware to read the contents of all floating point registers, see
	  CVE-2018-3665.

endif # CPU_HAS_FPU

config X86_FP_USE_SOFT_FLOAT
	bool
	prompt "Use Software Floating Point Operations" if !(NEWLIB_LIBC && !FPU)
	default y if NEWLIB_LIBC && !FPU
	help
	  Enable using software floating point operations.

endmenu

config DCACHE_LINE_SIZE
	default 64 if CPU_ATOM

config CLFLUSH_INSTRUCTION_SUPPORTED
	bool "CLFLUSH instruction supported"
	depends on !CLFLUSH_DETECT && CACHE_MANAGEMENT
	help
	  An implementation of sys_cache_flush() that uses CLFLUSH is made
	  available, instead of the one using WBINVD.

	  This option should only be enabled if it is known in advance that the
	  CPU supports the CLFLUSH instruction. It disables runtime detection of
	  CLFLUSH support thereby reducing both memory footprint and boot time.

config CLFLUSH_DETECT
	bool "Detect support of CLFLUSH instruction at runtime"
	depends on CACHE_MANAGEMENT
	help
	  This option should be enabled if it is not known in advance whether the
	  CPU supports the CLFLUSH instruction or not.

	  The CPU is queried at boot time to determine which of the multiple
	  implementations of sys_cache_flush() linked into the image is the
	  correct one to use.

	  If the CPU's support (or lack thereof) of CLFLUSH is known in advance, then
	  disable this option and set CLFLUSH_INSTRUCTION_SUPPORTED as appropriate.

config X86_DYNAMIC_IRQ_STUBS
	int "Number of dynamic interrupt stubs"
	depends on DYNAMIC_INTERRUPTS
	default 4
	help
	  Installing interrupt handlers with irq_connect_dynamic() requires
	  some stub code to be generated at build time, one stub per dynamic
	  interrupt.

endmenu

config X86_EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE
	bool
	default y
	depends on EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE
	help
	  Internal config to enable runtime stack traces on fatal exceptions.

config X86_USE_THREAD_LOCAL_STORAGE
	bool
	default y if THREAD_LOCAL_STORAGE
	select SET_GDT
	select GDT_DYNAMIC
	help
	  Internal config to enable thread local storage.

endif # !X86_64