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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 0ec3f620d71..b4cb7a5ea69 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
select HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
+ select CPU_PM if (SUSPEND || CPU_IDLE)
help
The ARM series is a line of low-power-consumption RISC chip designs
licensed by ARM Ltd and targeted at embedded applications and
@@ -1413,6 +1414,31 @@ config SMP_ON_UP
If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
+config ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
+ bool "Support cpu topology definition"
+ depends on SMP && CPU_V7
+ default y
+ help
+ Support ARM cpu topology definition. The MPIDR register defines
+ affinity between processors which is then used to describe the cpu
+ topology of an ARM System.
+
+config SCHED_MC
+ bool "Multi-core scheduler support"
+ depends on ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
+ help
+ Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
+ making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
+ increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
+
+config SCHED_SMT
+ bool "SMT scheduler support"
+ depends on ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY
+ help
+ Improves the CPU scheduler's decision making when dealing with
+ MultiThreading at a cost of slightly increased overhead in some
+ places. If unsure say N here.
+
config HAVE_ARM_SCU
bool
help
@@ -1741,6 +1767,15 @@ config DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT
This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.
Some old boot loaders still use this way.
+config ARM_FLUSH_CONSOLE_ON_RESTART
+ bool "Force flush the console on restart"
+ help
+ If the console is locked while the system is rebooted, the messages
+ in the temporary logbuffer would not have propogated to all the
+ console drivers. This option forces the console lock to be
+ released if it failed to be acquired, which will cause all the
+ pending messages to be flushed.
+
endmenu
menu "Boot options"
@@ -1815,6 +1850,38 @@ config ZBOOT_ROM_SH_MOBILE_SDHI
endchoice
+config ARM_APPENDED_DTB
+ bool "Use appended device tree blob to zImage (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on OF && !ZBOOT_ROM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ With this option, the boot code will look for a device tree binary
+ (DTB) appended to zImage
+ (e.g. cat zImage <filename>.dtb > zImage_w_dtb).
+
+ This is meant as a backward compatibility convenience for those
+ systems with a bootloader that can't be upgraded to accommodate
+ the documented boot protocol using a device tree.
+
+ Beware that there is very little in terms of protection against
+ this option being confused by leftover garbage in memory that might
+ look like a DTB header after a reboot if no actual DTB is appended
+ to zImage. Do not leave this option active in a production kernel
+ if you don't intend to always append a DTB. Proper passing of the
+ location into r2 of a bootloader provided DTB is always preferable
+ to this option.
+
+config ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
+ bool "Supplement the appended DTB with traditional ATAG information"
+ depends on ARM_APPENDED_DTB
+ help
+ Some old bootloaders can't be updated to a DTB capable one, yet
+ they provide ATAGs with memory configuration, the ramdisk address,
+ the kernel cmdline string, etc. Such information is dynamically
+ provided by the bootloader and can't always be stored in a static
+ DTB. To allow a device tree enabled kernel to be used with such
+ bootloaders, this option allows zImage to extract the information
+ from the ATAG list and store it at run time into the appended DTB.
+
config CMDLINE
string "Default kernel command string"
default ""
@@ -1853,7 +1920,7 @@ endchoice
config XIP_KERNEL
bool "Kernel Execute-In-Place from ROM"
- depends on !ZBOOT_ROM
+ depends on !ZBOOT_ROM && !ARM_LPAE
help
Execute-In-Place allows the kernel to run from non-volatile storage
directly addressable by the CPU, such as NOR flash. This saves RAM