arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 7481 bytes
- Lines
- 244
- Domain
- Architecture Layer
- Bucket
- arch/x86
- Inferred role
- Architecture Layer: build/configuration rule
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- Touches IRQ or DMA behavior; this matters for the representative real-device path.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# KVM configuration
#
source "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
default y
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.
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
if VIRTUALIZATION
config KVM_X86
def_tristate KVM if (KVM_INTEL != n || KVM_AMD != n)
select KVM_COMMON
select KVM_ELIDE_TLB_FLUSH_IF_YOUNG
select KVM_MMU_LOCKLESS_AGING
select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
select HAVE_KVM_PFNCACHE
select HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_TSO
select HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_ACQ_REL
select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS
select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
select HAVE_KVM_READONLY_MEM
select VHOST_TASK
select KVM_ASYNC_PF
select USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
select KVM_MMIO
select SCHED_INFO
select PERF_EVENTS
select GUEST_PERF_EVENTS
select PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMU
select HAVE_KVM_MSI
select HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
select HAVE_KVM_NO_POLL
select VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK
select KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
select KVM_VFIO
select HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER if PM
select KVM_GENERIC_HARDWARE_ENABLING
select KVM_GENERIC_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
select KVM_WERROR if WERROR
select KVM_GUEST_MEMFD if X86_64
config KVM
tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
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
need to select one or more of the processor modules below.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_WERROR
bool "Compile KVM with -Werror"
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Architecture Layer / arch/x86.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
- IRQ or DMA behavior appears here, which is relevant to the selected PCIe/NVMe device path.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.