x86: clean up arch/x86/Kconfig*

- Consistent alignment of help text
- Use the ---help--- keyword everywhere consistently as a visual separator
- fix whitespace mismatches

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

3 files changed, 260 insertions, 261 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 80291f749b66..270ecf90bdb4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86"
 config 64BIT
         bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
         default ARCH = "x86_64"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64
           Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ config SMP
 config SPARSE_IRQ
         bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
         depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro
           kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still
           want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines.
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ config NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC
         bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity"
         depends on SPARSE_IRQ && NUMA
         default n
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables moving irq_desc to cpu/node that irq will use handled.
 
           If you don't know what to do here, say N.
@@ -258,19 +258,19 @@ config X86_MPPARSE
         bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
         default y
         depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
-        help
+        ---help---
           For old smp systems that do not have proper acpi support. Newer systems
           (esp with 64bit cpus) with acpi support, MADT and DSDT will override it
 
 config X86_BIGSMP
         bool "Support for big SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs"
         depends on X86_32 && SMP
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option is needed for the systems that have more than 8 CPUs
 
 config X86_NON_STANDARD
         bool "Support for non-standard x86 platforms"
-        help
+        ---help---
           If you disable this option then the kernel will only support
           standard PC platforms. (which covers the vast majority of
           systems out there.)
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ config X86_VISWS
         bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)"
         depends on X86_32 && PCI && X86_MPPARSE && PCI_GODIRECT
         depends on X86_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation
           based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached.
 
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ config X86_RDC321X
         depends on X86_NON_STANDARD
         select M486
         select X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option is needed for RDC R-321x system-on-chip, also known
           as R-8610-(G).
           If you don't have one of these chips, you should say N here.
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ config X86_UV
         bool "SGI Ultraviolet"
         depends on X86_64
         depends on X86_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option is needed in order to support SGI Ultraviolet systems.
           If you don't have one of these, you should say N here.
 
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ config X86_VSMP
         select PARAVIRT
         depends on X86_64 && PCI
         depends on X86_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems.  Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
           supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines.  Only choose this option
           if you have one of these machines.
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ config X86_ELAN
         bool "AMD Elan"
         depends on X86_32
         depends on X86_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an AMD Elan processor.
 
           Do not use this option for K6/Athlon/Opteron processors!
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ config X86_32_NON_STANDARD
         bool "Support non-standard 32-bit SMP architectures"
         depends on X86_32 && SMP
         depends on X86_NON_STANDARD
-        help
-          This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default
+        ---help---
+          This option compiles in the NUMAQ, Summit, bigsmp, ES7000, default
           subarchitectures.  It is intended for a generic binary kernel.
           if you select them all, kernel will probe it one by one. and will
           fallback to default.
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ config X86_NUMAQ
         depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
         select NUMA
         select X86_MPPARSE
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option is used for getting Linux to run on a NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)
           NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are
           bootstrapped, and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead
@@ -359,14 +359,14 @@ config X86_NUMAQ
 config X86_SUMMIT
         bool "Summit/EXA (IBM x440)"
         depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset.
           In particular, it is needed for the x440.
 
 config X86_ES7000
         bool "Support for Unisys ES7000 IA32 series"
         depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD && X86_BIGSMP
-        help
+        ---help---
           Support for Unisys ES7000 systems.  Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
           supposed to run on an IA32-based Unisys ES7000 system.
 
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ config X86_VOYAGER
         bool "Voyager (NCR)"
         depends on SMP && !PCI && BROKEN
         depends on X86_32_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary
           to NCR Corp.  Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based.
 
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
         def_bool y
         prompt "Single-depth WCHAN output"
         depends on X86
-        help
+        ---help---
           Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
           is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
           caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
 
 menuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST
         bool "Paravirtualized guest support"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under
           various hypervisors.  This option alone does not add any kernel code.
 
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ config VMI
         bool "VMI Guest support"
         select PARAVIRT
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
           (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
           at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ config KVM_CLOCK
         bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
         select PARAVIRT
         select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
-        help
+        ---help---
           Turning on this option will allow you to run a paravirtualized clock
           when running over the KVM hypervisor. Instead of relying on a PIT
           (or probably other) emulation by the underlying device model, the host
@@ -431,15 +431,15 @@ config KVM_CLOCK
 config KVM_GUEST
         bool "KVM Guest support"
         select PARAVIRT
-        help
-         This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
-         hypervisor.
+        ---help---
+          This option enables various optimizations for running under the KVM
+          hypervisor.
 
 source "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig"
 
 config PARAVIRT
         bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
           under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
           over full virtualization.  However, when run without a hypervisor
@@ -452,21 +452,21 @@ config PARAVIRT_CLOCK
 endif
 
 config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
-       bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
-       depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
-       help
-         Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals.  Specifically, BUG if
-         a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
+        bool "paravirt-ops debugging"
+        depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
+        ---help---
+          Enable to debug paravirt_ops internals.  Specifically, BUG if
+          a paravirt_op is missing when it is called.
 
 config MEMTEST
         bool "Memtest"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
           to be set.
-                memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
-                memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
-                ...
-                memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns.
+                memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
+                memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
+                ...
+                memtest=4, mean do 4 test patterns.
           If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
 
 config X86_SUMMIT_NUMA
@@ -482,21 +482,21 @@ source "arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu"
 config HPET_TIMER
         def_bool X86_64
         prompt "HPET Timer Support" if X86_32
-        help
-         Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
-         time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
-         present.
-         HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
-         The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
-         systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
-         as it is off-chip.  You can find the HPET spec at
-         <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>.
+        ---help---
+          Use the IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to manage
+          time in preference to the PIT and RTC, if a HPET is
+          present.
+          HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
+          The HPET provides a stable time base on SMP
+          systems, unlike the TSC, but it is more expensive to access,
+          as it is off-chip.  You can find the HPET spec at
+          <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf>.
 
-         You can safely choose Y here.  However, HPET will only be
-         activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
-         Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
+          You can safely choose Y here.  However, HPET will only be
+          activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
+          Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
 
-         Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
+          Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
 
 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
         def_bool y
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
 config DMI
         default y
         bool "Enable DMI scanning" if EMBEDDED
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enabled scanning of DMI to identify machine quirks. Say Y
           here unless you have verified that your setup is not
           affected by entries in the DMI blacklist. Required by PNP
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ config GART_IOMMU
         select SWIOTLB
         select AGP
         depends on X86_64 && PCI
-        help
+        ---help---
           Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only
           on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB,
           sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU
         bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support"
         select SWIOTLB
         depends on X86_64 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
-        help
+        ---help---
           Support for hardware IOMMUs in IBM's xSeries x366 and x460
           systems. Needed to run systems with more than 3GB of memory
           properly with 32-bit PCI devices that do not support DAC
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
         def_bool y
         prompt "Should Calgary be enabled by default?"
         depends on CALGARY_IOMMU
-        help
+        ---help---
           Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary
           will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be
           used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ config AMD_IOMMU
         select SWIOTLB
         select PCI_MSI
         depends on X86_64 && PCI && ACPI
-        help
+        ---help---
           With this option you can enable support for AMD IOMMU hardware in
           your system. An IOMMU is a hardware component which provides
           remapping of DMA memory accesses from devices. With an AMD IOMMU you
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ config AMD_IOMMU_STATS
         bool "Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs"
         depends on AMD_IOMMU
         select DEBUG_FS
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option enables code in the AMD IOMMU driver to collect various
           statistics about whats happening in the driver and exports that
           information to userspace via debugfs.
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ config AMD_IOMMU_STATS
 # need this always selected by IOMMU for the VIA workaround
 config SWIOTLB
         def_bool y if X86_64
-        help
+        ---help---
           Support for software bounce buffers used on x86-64 systems
           which don't have a hardware IOMMU (e.g. the current generation
           of Intel's x86-64 CPUs). Using this PCI devices which can only
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ config MAXSMP
         depends on X86_64 && SMP && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL
         select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
         default n
-        help
+        ---help---
           Configure maximum number of CPUS and NUMA Nodes for this architecture.
           If unsure, say N.
 
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ config NR_CPUS
         default "4096" if MAXSMP
         default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000)
         default "8" if SMP
-        help
+        ---help---
           This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
           kernel will support.  The maximum supported value is 512 and the
           minimum value which makes sense is 2.
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ config NR_CPUS
 config SCHED_SMT
         bool "SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support"
         depends on X86_HT
-        help
+        ---help---
           SMT scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making
           when dealing with Intel Pentium 4 chips with HyperThreading at a
           cost of slightly increased overhead in some places. If unsure say
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ config SCHED_MC
         def_bool y
         prompt "Multi-core scheduler support"
         depends on X86_HT
-        help
+        ---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.
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
 config X86_UP_APIC
         bool "Local APIC support on uniprocessors"
         depends on X86_32 && !SMP && !X86_32_NON_STANDARD
-        help
+        ---help---
           A local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
           integrated interrupt controller in the CPU. If you have a single-CPU
           system which has a processor with a local APIC, you can say Y here to
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ config X86_UP_APIC
 config X86_UP_IOAPIC
         bool "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
         depends on X86_UP_APIC
-        help
+        ---help---
           An IO-APIC (I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is an
           SMP-capable replacement for PC-style interrupt controllers. Most
           SMP systems and many recent uniprocessor systems have one.
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
         bool "Reroute for broken boot IRQs"
         default n
         depends on X86_IO_APIC
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option enables a workaround that fixes a source of
           spurious interrupts. This is recommended when threaded
           interrupt handling is used on systems where the generation of
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ config X86_MCE_INTEL
         def_bool y
         prompt "Intel MCE features"
         depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
-        help
+        ---help---
            Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as
            the thermal monitor.
 
@@ -734,14 +734,14 @@ config X86_MCE_AMD
         def_bool y
         prompt "AMD MCE features"
         depends on X86_64 && X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC
-        help
+        ---help---
            Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as
            the DRAM Error Threshold.
 
 config X86_MCE_NONFATAL
         tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4"
         depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which
           will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened.
           Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged).
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ config X86_MCE_NONFATAL
 config X86_MCE_P4THERMAL
         bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt."
         depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP)
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4
           enters thermal throttling.
 
@@ -762,11 +762,11 @@ config VM86
         bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
         default y
         depends on X86_32
-        help
-          This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
+        ---help---
+          This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
           code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
-          XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
-          option saves about 6k.
+          XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
+          option saves about 6k.
 
 config TOSHIBA
         tristate "Toshiba Laptop support"
@@ -840,33 +840,33 @@ config MICROCODE
           module will be called microcode.
 
 config MICROCODE_INTEL
-       bool "Intel microcode patch loading support"
-       depends on MICROCODE
-       default MICROCODE
-       select FW_LOADER
-       --help---
-         This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
-         processors.
-
-         For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
-         Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
-         <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
+        bool "Intel microcode patch loading support"
+        depends on MICROCODE
+        default MICROCODE
+        select FW_LOADER
+        ---help---
+          This options enables microcode patch loading support for Intel
+          processors.
+
+          For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
+          Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
+          <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>.
 
 config MICROCODE_AMD
-       bool "AMD microcode patch loading support"
-       depends on MICROCODE
-       select FW_LOADER
-       --help---
-         If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
-         processors will be enabled.
+        bool "AMD microcode patch loading support"
+        depends on MICROCODE
+        select FW_LOADER
+        ---help---
+          If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
+          processors will be enabled.
 
-   config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
+config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
         def_bool y
         depends on MICROCODE
 
 config X86_MSR
         tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This device gives privileged processes access to the x86
           Model-Specific Registers (MSRs).  It is a character device with
           major 202 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/msr to /dev/cpu/31/msr.
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ config X86_MSR
 
 config X86_CPUID
         tristate "/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to
           be executed on a specific processor.  It is a character device
           with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ config NOHIGHMEM
 config HIGHMEM4G
         bool "4GB"
         depends on !X86_NUMAQ
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
           gigabytes of physical RAM.
 
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ config HIGHMEM64G
         bool "64GB"
         depends on !M386 && !M486
         select X86_PAE
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
           gigabytes of physical RAM.
 
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ choice
         prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED
         default VMSPLIT_3G
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
 
           If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
@@ -992,20 +992,20 @@ config HIGHMEM
 config X86_PAE
         bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
         depends on X86_32 && !HIGHMEM4G
-        help
+        ---help---
           PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
           larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
           has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
           consumes more pagetable space per process.
 
 config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
-       def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
+        def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
 
 config DIRECT_GBPAGES
         bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED
         default y
         depends on X86_64
-        help
+        ---help---
           Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that
           support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by
           reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y".
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ config NUMA
         depends on SMP
         depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
         default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP)
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support.
 
           The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
@@ -1039,19 +1039,19 @@ config K8_NUMA
         def_bool y
         prompt "Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection"
         depends on X86_64 && NUMA && PCI
-        help
-         Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection.  You should say Y here if
-         you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old
-         method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin
-         Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
-         instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
+        ---help---
+          Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection.  You should say Y here if
+          you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old
+          method to read the NUMA configuration directly from the builtin
+          Northbridge of Opteron. It is recommended to use X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
+          instead, which also takes priority if both are compiled in.
 
 config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
         def_bool y
         prompt "ACPI NUMA detection"
         depends on X86_64 && NUMA && ACPI && PCI
         select ACPI_NUMA
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
 
 # Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ config NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
 config NUMA_EMU
         bool "NUMA emulation"
         depends on X86_64 && NUMA
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enable NUMA emulation. A flat machine will be split
           into virtual nodes when booted with "numa=fake=N", where N is the
           number of nodes. This is only useful for debugging.
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ config NODES_SHIFT
         default "4" if X86_NUMAQ
         default "3"
         depends on NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
-        help
+        ---help---
           Specify the maximum number of NUMA Nodes available on the target
           system.  Increases memory reserved to accomodate various tables.
 
@@ -1134,61 +1134,61 @@ source "mm/Kconfig"
 config HIGHPTE
         bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
         depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G)
-        help
+        ---help---
           The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
           For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
           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"
-        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.
+        bool "Check for low memory corruption"
+        ---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 X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK
-        bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
+        bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check"
         depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
         default y
-        help
-         Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
-         on or off.
+        ---help---
+          Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is
+          on or off.
 
 config X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K
-        bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen"
+        bool "Reserve low 64K of RAM on AMI/Phoenix BIOSen"
         default y
-        help
-         Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known
-         to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are
-         known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not
-         be used by the kernel.
+        ---help---
+          Reserve the first 64K of physical RAM on BIOSes that are known
+          to potentially corrupt that memory range. A numbers of BIOSes are
+          known to utilize this area during suspend/resume, so it must not
+          be used by the kernel.
 
-         Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS
-         to get all its memory reservations and usages right.
+          Set this to N if you are absolutely sure that you trust the BIOS
+          to get all its memory reservations and usages right.
 
-         If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not
-         work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug
-         events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable
-         X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical
-         corruption patterns.
+          If you have doubts about the BIOS (e.g. suspend/resume does not
+          work or there's kernel crashes after certain hardware hotplug
+          events) and it's not AMI or Phoenix, then you might want to enable
+          X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y to allow the kernel to check typical
+          corruption patterns.
 
-         Say Y if unsure.
+          Say Y if unsure.
 
 config MATH_EMULATION
         bool
@@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER
         def_bool y
         prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
         depends on MTRR
-        help
+        ---help---
           Convert MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, so X drivers can
           add writeback entries.
 
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
         range 0 1
         default "0"
         depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enable mtrr cleanup default value
 
 config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT
         range 0 7
         default "1"
         depends on MTRR_SANITIZER
-        help
+        ---help---
           mtrr cleanup spare entries default, it can be changed via
           mtrr_spare_reg_nr=N on the kernel command line.
 
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ config X86_PAT
         bool
         prompt "x86 PAT support"
         depends on MTRR
-        help
+        ---help---
           Use PAT attributes to setup page level cache control.
 
           PATs are the modern equivalents of MTRRs and are much more
@@ -1300,20 +1300,20 @@ config EFI
         bool "EFI runtime service support"
         depends on ACPI
         ---help---
-        This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
-        available (such as the EFI variable services).
+          This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
+          available (such as the EFI variable services).
 
-        This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
-        In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
-        at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
-        of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
-        resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
-        platforms.
+          This option is only useful on systems that have EFI firmware.
+          In addition, you should use the latest ELILO loader available
+          at <http://elilo.sourceforge.net> in order to take advantage
+          of EFI runtime services. However, even with this option, the
+          resultant kernel should continue to boot on existing non-EFI
+          platforms.
 
 config SECCOMP
         def_bool y
         prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
           that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
           execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
@@ -1333,8 +1333,8 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
         bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
         depends on X86_64
         select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
-        help
-          This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
+        ---help---
+          This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
           feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
           the stack just before the return address, and validates
           the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer
@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz
 
 config KEXEC
         bool "kexec system call"
-        help
+        ---help---
           kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
           current kernel, and to start another kernel.  It is like a reboot
           but it is independent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ config KEXEC
 config CRASH_DUMP
         bool "kernel crash dumps"
         depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
-        help
+        ---help---
           Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
           This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
           which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP
         bool "kexec jump (EXPERIMENTAL)"
         depends on EXPERIMENTAL
         depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION && X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
           code in physical address mode via KEXEC
 
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_START
         default "0x1000000" if X86_NUMAQ
         default "0x200000" if X86_64
         default "0x100000"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
 
           If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_START
 config RELOCATABLE
         bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
         depends on EXPERIMENTAL
-        help
+        ---help---
           This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
           so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
           The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
         default "0x100000" if X86_32
         default "0x200000" if X86_64
         range 0x2000 0x400000
-        help
+        ---help---
           This value puts the alignment restrictions on physical address
           where kernel is loaded and run from. Kernel is compiled for an
           address which meets above alignment restriction.
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO
         def_bool y
         prompt "Compat VDSO support"
         depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
-        help
+        ---help---
           Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too.
         ---help---
           Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO
 config CMDLINE_BOOL
         bool "Built-in kernel command line"
         default n
-        help
+        ---help---
           Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
           build time.  On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
           necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
@@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@ config CMDLINE
         string "Built-in kernel command string"
         depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
         default ""
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
           image and used at boot time.  If the boot loader provides a
           command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
         bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
         default n
         depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
-        help
+        ---help---
           Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
           command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
 
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ if APM
 
 config APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND
         bool "Ignore USER SUSPEND"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option will ignore USER SUSPEND requests. On machines with a
           compliant APM BIOS, you want to say N. However, on the NEC Versa M
           series notebooks, it is necessary to say Y because of a BIOS bug.
@@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ config APM_DO_ENABLE
 
 config APM_CPU_IDLE
         bool "Make CPU Idle calls when idle"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enable calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop.
           On some machines, this can activate improved power savings, such as
           a slowed CPU clock rate, when the machine is idle. These idle calls
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ config APM_CPU_IDLE
 
 config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
         bool "Enable console blanking using APM"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enable console blanking using the APM. Some laptops can use this to
           turn off the LCD backlight when the screen blanker of the Linux
           virtual console blanks the screen. Note that this is only used by
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ config APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
 
 config APM_ALLOW_INTS
         bool "Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Normally we disable external interrupts while we are making calls to
           the APM BIOS as a measure to lessen the effects of a badly behaving
           BIOS implementation.  The BIOS should reenable interrupts if it
@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ config PCI
         bool "PCI support"
         default y
         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC)
-        help
+        ---help---
           Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a
           bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside
           your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or
@@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ config PCI_MMCONFIG
 config DMAR
         bool "Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
         depends on X86_64 && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
-        help
+        ---help---
           DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address
           translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices.
           These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables
@@ -1798,29 +1798,29 @@ config DMAR_GFX_WA
         def_bool y
         prompt "Support for Graphics workaround"
         depends on DMAR
-        help
-         Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address
-         for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config
-         option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for
-         all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue
-         to use physical addresses for DMA.
+        ---help---
+          Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address
+          for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config
+          option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for
+          all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue
+          to use physical addresses for DMA.
 
 config DMAR_FLOPPY_WA
         def_bool y
         depends on DMAR
-        help
-         Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls
-         thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This
-         workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first
-         16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work.
+        ---help---
+          Floppy disk drivers are know to bypass DMA API calls
+          thereby failing to work when IOMMU is enabled. This
+          workaround will setup a 1:1 mapping for the first
+          16M to make floppy (an ISA device) work.
 
 config INTR_REMAP
         bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)"
         depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
-        help
-         Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices.
-         To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or
-         to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y.
+        ---help---
+          Supports Interrupt remapping for IO-APIC and MSI devices.
+          To use x2apic mode in the CPU's which support x2APIC enhancements or
+          to support platforms with CPU's having > 8 bit APIC ID, say Y.
 
 source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig"
 
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ if X86_32
 
 config ISA
         bool "ISA support"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Find out whether you have ISA slots on your motherboard.  ISA is the
           name of a bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff
           inside your box.  Other bus systems are PCI, EISA, MicroChannel
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig"
 
 config MCA
         bool "MCA support"
-        help
+        ---help---
           MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and
           laptops.  It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See
           <file:Documentation/mca.txt> (and especially the web page given
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ source "drivers/mca/Kconfig"
 
 config SCx200
         tristate "NatSemi SCx200 support"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This provides basic support for National Semiconductor's
           (now AMD's) Geode processors.  The driver probes for the
           PCI-IDs of several on-chip devices, so its a good dependency
@@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ config SCx200HR_TIMER
         tristate "NatSemi SCx200 27MHz High-Resolution Timer Support"
         depends on SCx200 && GENERIC_TIME
         default y
-        help
+        ---help---
           This driver provides a clocksource built upon the on-chip
           27MHz high-resolution timer.  Its also a workaround for
           NSC Geode SC-1100's buggy TSC, which loses time when the
@@ -1894,7 +1894,7 @@ config GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER
         def_bool y
         prompt "Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events"
         depends on MGEODE_LX && GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
-        help
+        ---help---
           This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT
           timer(s) in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode.
           MFGPTs have a better resolution and max interval than the
@@ -1903,7 +1903,7 @@ config GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER
 config OLPC
         bool "One Laptop Per Child support"
         default n
-        help
+        ---help---
           Add support for detecting the unique features of the OLPC
           XO hardware.
 
@@ -1928,16 +1928,16 @@ config IA32_EMULATION
         bool "IA32 Emulation"
         depends on X86_64
         select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
-        help
+        ---help---
           Include code to run 32-bit programs under a 64-bit kernel. You should
           likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any
           32-bit programs left.
 
 config IA32_AOUT
-       tristate "IA32 a.out support"
-       depends on IA32_EMULATION
-       help
-         Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
+        tristate "IA32 a.out support"
+        depends on IA32_EMULATION
+        ---help---
+          Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.
 
 config COMPAT
         def_bool y
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index 085fef4d8660..a95eaf0e582a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ config M386
 config M486
         bool "486"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a 486 series processor, either Intel or one of the
           compatible processors from AMD, Cyrix, IBM, or Intel.  Includes DX,
           DX2, and DX4 variants; also SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5D or
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ config M486
 config M586
         bool "586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an 586 or 686 series processor such as the AMD K5,
           the Cyrix 5x86, 6x86 and 6x86MX.  This choice does not
           assume the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction.
@@ -67,21 +67,21 @@ config M586
 config M586TSC
         bool "Pentium-Classic"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a Pentium Classic processor with the RDTSC (Read
           Time Stamp Counter) instruction for benchmarking.
 
 config M586MMX
         bool "Pentium-MMX"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a Pentium with the MMX graphics/multimedia
           extended instructions.
 
 config M686
         bool "Pentium-Pro"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for Intel Pentium Pro chips.  This enables the use of
           Pentium Pro extended instructions, and disables the init-time guard
           against the f00f bug found in earlier Pentiums.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ config M686
 config MPENTIUMII
         bool "Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine)"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-II and
           pre-Coppermine Celeron core.  This option enables an unaligned
           copy optimization, compiles the kernel with optimization flags
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ config MPENTIUMII
 config MPENTIUMIII
         bool "Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)/Pentium-III Xeon"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for Intel chips based on the Pentium-III and
           Celeron-Coppermine core.  This option enables use of some
           extended prefetch instructions in addition to the Pentium II
@@ -108,14 +108,14 @@ config MPENTIUMIII
 config MPENTIUMM
         bool "Pentium M"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for Intel Pentium M (not Pentium-4 M)
           notebook chips.
 
 config MPENTIUM4
         bool "Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/older Xeon"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for Intel Pentium 4 chips.  This includes the
           Pentium 4, Pentium D, P4-based Celeron and Xeon, and
           Pentium-4 M (not Pentium M) chips.  This option enables compile
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ config MPENTIUM4
 config MK6
         bool "K6/K6-II/K6-III"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an AMD K6-family processor.  Enables use of
           some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization
           flags to GCC.
@@ -159,14 +159,14 @@ config MK6
 config MK7
         bool "Athlon/Duron/K7"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an AMD Athlon K7-family processor.  Enables use of
           some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization
           flags to GCC.
 
 config MK8
         bool "Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor.
           Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate
           optimization flags to GCC.
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ config MK8
 config MCRUSOE
         bool "Crusoe"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a Transmeta Crusoe processor.  Treats the processor
           like a 586 with TSC, and sets some GCC optimization flags (like a
           Pentium Pro with no alignment requirements).
@@ -182,13 +182,13 @@ config MCRUSOE
 config MEFFICEON
         bool "Efficeon"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a Transmeta Efficeon processor.
 
 config MWINCHIPC6
         bool "Winchip-C6"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an IDT Winchip C6 chip.  Linux and GCC
           treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions
           and alignment requirements.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ config MWINCHIPC6
 config MWINCHIP3D
         bool "Winchip-2/Winchip-2A/Winchip-3"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for an IDT Winchip-2, 2A or 3.  Linux and GCC
           treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions
           and alignment requirements.  Also enable out of order memory
@@ -206,19 +206,19 @@ config MWINCHIP3D
 config MGEODEGX1
         bool "GeodeGX1"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a Geode GX1 (Cyrix MediaGX) chip.
 
 config MGEODE_LX
         bool "Geode GX/LX"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for AMD Geode GX and LX processors.
 
 config MCYRIXIII
         bool "CyrixIII/VIA-C3"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a Cyrix III or C3 chip.  Presently Linux and GCC
           treat this chip as a generic 586. Whilst the CPU is 686 class,
           it lacks the cmov extension which gcc assumes is present when
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ config MCYRIXIII
 config MVIAC3_2
         bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage
           of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686.
           Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s.
@@ -238,14 +238,14 @@ config MVIAC3_2
 config MVIAC7
         bool "VIA C7"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Select this for a VIA C7.  Selecting this uses the correct cache
           shift and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686.
 
 config MPSC
         bool "Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon"
         depends on X86_64
-        help
+        ---help---
           Optimize for Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and older Nocona/Dempsey
           Xeon CPUs with Intel 64bit which is compatible with x86-64.
           Note that the latest Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) are not based on the
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ config MPSC
 
 config MCORE2
         bool "Core 2/newer Xeon"
-        help
+        ---help---
 
           Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and
           53xx) CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ config MCORE2
 config GENERIC_CPU
         bool "Generic-x86-64"
         depends on X86_64
-        help
+        ---help---
           Generic x86-64 CPU.
           Run equally well on all x86-64 CPUs.
 
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ endchoice
 config X86_GENERIC
         bool "Generic x86 support"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           Instead of just including optimizations for the selected
           x86 variant (e.g. PII, Crusoe or Athlon), include some more
           generic optimizations as well. This will make the kernel
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ config X86_XADD
 config X86_PPRO_FENCE
         bool "PentiumPro memory ordering errata workaround"
         depends on M686 || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || M386 || MGEODEGX1
-        help
+        ---help---
           Old PentiumPro multiprocessor systems had errata that could cause
           memory operations to violate the x86 ordering standard in rare cases.
           Enabling this option will attempt to work around some (but not all)
@@ -412,14 +412,14 @@ config X86_DEBUGCTLMSR
 
 menuconfig PROCESSOR_SELECT
         bool "Supported processor vendors" if EMBEDDED
-        help
+        ---help---
           This lets you choose what x86 vendor support code your kernel
           will include.
 
 config CPU_SUP_INTEL
         default y
         bool "Support Intel processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Intel processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on an
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CYRIX_32
         default y
         bool "Support Cyrix processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
         depends on !64BIT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Cyrix processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CYRIX_32
 config CPU_SUP_AMD
         default y
         bool "Support AMD processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for AMD processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on an
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR_32
         default y
         bool "Support Centaur processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
         depends on !64BIT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Centaur processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_CENTAUR_64
         default y
         bool "Support Centaur processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
         depends on 64BIT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Centaur processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_TRANSMETA_32
         default y
         bool "Support Transmeta processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
         depends on !64BIT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for Transmeta processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ config CPU_SUP_UMC_32
         default y
         bool "Support UMC processors" if PROCESSOR_SELECT
         depends on !64BIT
-        help
+        ---help---
           This enables detection, tunings and quirks for UMC processors
 
           You need this enabled if you want your kernel to run on a
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ config X86_PTRACE_BTS
         bool "Branch Trace Store"
         default y
         depends on X86_DEBUGCTLMSR
-        help
+        ---help---
           This adds a ptrace interface to the hardware's branch trace store.
 
           Debuggers may use it to collect an execution trace of the debugged
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index a38dd6064f10..ba4781b93890 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
 
 config STRICT_DEVMEM
         bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
-        help
+        ---help---
           If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
           of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
           access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config STRICT_DEVMEM
 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
         bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
         default y
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
           (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
           see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
 config EARLY_PRINTK
         bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
         default y
-        help
+        ---help---
           Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
           port.
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
         bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
         default n
         depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
-        help
+        ---help---
           Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
 
           This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
         bool "Check for stack overflows"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
           drops below a certain limit.
 
 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
         bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-        help
+        ---help---
           Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
           task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
         bool "Debug page memory allocations"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-        help
+        ---help---
           Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
           This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
           of memory corruptions.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
         depends on SMP
         default n
-        help
+        ---help---
           Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
           been setup.  Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
           and decreases performance.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ config X86_PTDUMP
         bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
         select DEBUG_FS
-        help
+        ---help---
           Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
           debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
           who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA
         bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
         default y
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-        help
+        ---help---
           Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
           in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
           data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
         bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
         depends on DEBUG_RODATA
         default y
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
           feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
           If in doubt, say "N"
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
 config DEBUG_NX_TEST
         tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
           and the software setup of this feature.
           If in doubt, say "N"
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ config DEBUG_NX_TEST
 config 4KSTACKS
         bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
           kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
           running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ config DOUBLEFAULT
         default y
         bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
         depends on X86_32
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
           would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
           option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ config IOMMU_DEBUG
         bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
         depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
         depends on X86_64
-        help
+        ---help---
           Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
           memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
           allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ config IOMMU_LEAK
         bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
         depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
-        help
+        ---help---
           Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
           are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
 
@@ -224,25 +224,25 @@ choice
 
 config IO_DELAY_0X80
         bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
           It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
 
 config IO_DELAY_0XED
         bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
           often used as a hardware-debug port.
 
 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
         bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
-        help
+        ---help---
           Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
           while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
 
 config IO_DELAY_NONE
         bool "no port-IO delay"
-        help
+        ---help---
           No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
           delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
 
@@ -276,18 +276,18 @@ config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
         bool "Debug boot parameters"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
         depends on DEBUG_FS
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
 
 config CPA_DEBUG
         bool "CPA self-test code"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-        help
+        ---help---
           Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
 
 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
         bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
-        help
+        ---help---
           This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
           developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
           do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
@@ -300,4 +300,3 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
           If unsure, say N.
 
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