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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2config VIRTIO
3 tristate
4 help
5 This option is selected by any driver which implements the virtio
6 bus, such as CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI, CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO, CONFIG_RPMSG
7 or CONFIG_S390_GUEST.
8
9menuconfig VIRTIO_MENU
10 bool "Virtio drivers"
11 default y
12
13if VIRTIO_MENU
14
15config VIRTIO_PCI
16 tristate "PCI driver for virtio devices"
17 depends on PCI
18 select VIRTIO
19 help
20 This driver provides support for virtio based paravirtual device
21 drivers over PCI. This requires that your VMM has appropriate PCI
22 virtio backends. Most QEMU based VMMs should support these devices
23 (like KVM or Xen).
24
25 If unsure, say M.
26
27config VIRTIO_PCI_LEGACY
28 bool "Support for legacy virtio draft 0.9.X and older devices"
29 default y
30 depends on VIRTIO_PCI
31 help
32 Virtio PCI Card 0.9.X Draft (circa 2014) and older device support.
33
34 This option enables building a transitional driver, supporting
35 both devices conforming to Virtio 1 specification, and legacy devices.
36 If disabled, you get a slightly smaller, non-transitional driver,
37 with no legacy compatibility.
38
39 So look out into your driveway. Do you have a flying car? If
40 so, you can happily disable this option and virtio will not
41 break. Otherwise, leave it set. Unless you're testing what
42 life will be like in The Future.
43
44 If unsure, say Y.
45
46config VIRTIO_VDPA
47 tristate "vDPA driver for virtio devices"
48 depends on VDPA
49 select VIRTIO
50 help
51 This driver provides support for virtio based paravirtual
52 device driver over vDPA bus. For this to be useful, you need
53 an appropriate vDPA device implementation that operates on a
54 physical device to allow the datapath of virtio to be
55 offloaded to hardware.
56
57 If unsure, say M.
58
59config VIRTIO_PMEM
60 tristate "Support for virtio pmem driver"
61 depends on VIRTIO
62 depends on LIBNVDIMM
63 help
64 This driver provides access to virtio-pmem devices, storage devices
65 that are mapped into the physical address space - similar to NVDIMMs
66 - with a virtio-based flushing interface.
67
68 If unsure, say Y.
69
70config VIRTIO_BALLOON
71 tristate "Virtio balloon driver"
72 depends on VIRTIO
73 select MEMORY_BALLOON
74 select PAGE_REPORTING
75 help
76 This driver supports increasing and decreasing the amount
77 of memory within a KVM guest.
78
79 If unsure, say M.
80
81config VIRTIO_MEM
82 tristate "Virtio mem driver"
83 default m
84 depends on X86_64
85 depends on VIRTIO
86 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
87 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
88 depends on CONTIG_ALLOC
89 help
90 This driver provides access to virtio-mem paravirtualized memory
91 devices, allowing to hotplug and hotunplug memory.
92
93 This driver was only tested under x86-64, but should theoretically
94 work on all architectures that support memory hotplug and hotremove.
95
96 If unsure, say M.
97
98config VIRTIO_INPUT
99 tristate "Virtio input driver"
100 depends on VIRTIO
101 depends on INPUT
102 help
103 This driver supports virtio input devices such as
104 keyboards, mice and tablets.
105
106 If unsure, say M.
107
108config VIRTIO_MMIO
109 tristate "Platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio devices"
110 depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
111 select VIRTIO
112 help
113 This drivers provides support for memory mapped virtio
114 platform device driver.
115
116 If unsure, say N.
117
118config VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES
119 bool "Memory mapped virtio devices parameter parsing"
120 depends on VIRTIO_MMIO
121 help
122 Allow virtio-mmio devices instantiation via the kernel command line
123 or module parameters. Be aware that using incorrect parameters (base
124 address in particular) can crash your system - you have been warned.
125 See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst for details.
126
127 If unsure, say 'N'.
128
129endif # VIRTIO_MENU
1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2config VIRTIO_ANCHOR
3 bool
4
5config VIRTIO
6 tristate
7 select VIRTIO_ANCHOR
8 help
9 This option is selected by any driver which implements the virtio
10 bus, such as CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI, CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO, CONFIG_RPMSG
11 or CONFIG_S390_GUEST.
12
13config VIRTIO_PCI_LIB
14 tristate
15 help
16 Modern PCI device implementation. This module implements the
17 basic probe and control for devices which are based on modern
18 PCI device with possible vendor specific extensions. Any
19 module that selects this module must depend on PCI.
20
21config VIRTIO_PCI_LIB_LEGACY
22 tristate
23 help
24 Legacy PCI device (Virtio PCI Card 0.9.x Draft and older device)
25 implementation.
26 This module implements the basic probe and control for devices
27 which are based on legacy PCI device. Any module that selects this
28 module must depend on PCI.
29
30menuconfig VIRTIO_MENU
31 bool "Virtio drivers"
32 default y
33
34if VIRTIO_MENU
35
36config VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION
37 bool "Harden virtio notification"
38 depends on BROKEN
39 help
40 Enable this to harden the device notifications and suppress
41 those that happen at a time where notifications are illegal.
42
43 Experimental: Note that several drivers still have issues that
44 may cause crashes or hangs when correct handling of
45 notifications is enforced; depending on the subset of
46 drivers and devices you use, this may or may not work.
47
48 If unsure, say N.
49
50config VIRTIO_PCI
51 tristate "PCI driver for virtio devices"
52 depends on PCI
53 select VIRTIO_PCI_LIB
54 select VIRTIO
55 help
56 This driver provides support for virtio based paravirtual device
57 drivers over PCI. This requires that your VMM has appropriate PCI
58 virtio backends. Most QEMU based VMMs should support these devices
59 (like KVM or Xen).
60
61 If unsure, say M.
62
63config VIRTIO_PCI_LEGACY
64 bool "Support for legacy virtio draft 0.9.X and older devices"
65 default y
66 depends on VIRTIO_PCI
67 select VIRTIO_PCI_LIB_LEGACY
68 help
69 Virtio PCI Card 0.9.X Draft (circa 2014) and older device support.
70
71 This option enables building a transitional driver, supporting
72 both devices conforming to Virtio 1 specification, and legacy devices.
73 If disabled, you get a slightly smaller, non-transitional driver,
74 with no legacy compatibility.
75
76 So look out into your driveway. Do you have a flying car? If
77 so, you can happily disable this option and virtio will not
78 break. Otherwise, leave it set. Unless you're testing what
79 life will be like in The Future.
80
81 If unsure, say Y.
82
83config VIRTIO_VDPA
84 tristate "vDPA driver for virtio devices"
85 depends on VDPA
86 select VIRTIO
87 help
88 This driver provides support for virtio based paravirtual
89 device driver over vDPA bus. For this to be useful, you need
90 an appropriate vDPA device implementation that operates on a
91 physical device to allow the datapath of virtio to be
92 offloaded to hardware.
93
94 If unsure, say M.
95
96config VIRTIO_PMEM
97 tristate "Support for virtio pmem driver"
98 depends on VIRTIO
99 depends on LIBNVDIMM
100 help
101 This driver provides access to virtio-pmem devices, storage devices
102 that are mapped into the physical address space - similar to NVDIMMs
103 - with a virtio-based flushing interface.
104
105 If unsure, say Y.
106
107config VIRTIO_BALLOON
108 tristate "Virtio balloon driver"
109 depends on VIRTIO
110 select MEMORY_BALLOON
111 select PAGE_REPORTING
112 help
113 This driver supports increasing and decreasing the amount
114 of memory within a KVM guest.
115
116 If unsure, say M.
117
118config VIRTIO_MEM
119 tristate "Virtio mem driver"
120 depends on X86_64 || ARM64
121 depends on VIRTIO
122 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
123 depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
124 depends on CONTIG_ALLOC
125 depends on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM
126 help
127 This driver provides access to virtio-mem paravirtualized memory
128 devices, allowing to hotplug and hotunplug memory.
129
130 This driver currently only supports x86-64 and arm64. Although it
131 should compile on other architectures that implement memory
132 hot(un)plug, architecture-specific and/or common
133 code changes may be required for virtio-mem, kdump and kexec to work as
134 expected.
135
136 If unsure, say M.
137
138config VIRTIO_INPUT
139 tristate "Virtio input driver"
140 depends on VIRTIO
141 depends on INPUT
142 help
143 This driver supports virtio input devices such as
144 keyboards, mice and tablets.
145
146 If unsure, say M.
147
148config VIRTIO_MMIO
149 tristate "Platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio devices"
150 depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
151 select VIRTIO
152 help
153 This drivers provides support for memory mapped virtio
154 platform device driver.
155
156 If unsure, say N.
157
158config VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES
159 bool "Memory mapped virtio devices parameter parsing"
160 depends on VIRTIO_MMIO
161 help
162 Allow virtio-mmio devices instantiation via the kernel command line
163 or module parameters. Be aware that using incorrect parameters (base
164 address in particular) can crash your system - you have been warned.
165 See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst for details.
166
167 If unsure, say 'N'.
168
169config VIRTIO_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
170 tristate
171 depends on DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
172 help
173 This option adds a flavor of dma buffers that are backed by
174 virtio resources.
175
176endif # VIRTIO_MENU