|  | menu "Kernel hacking" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  |  | 
|  | source "lib/Kconfig.debug" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config STRICT_DEVMEM | 
|  | bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" | 
|  | ---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 | 
|  | be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support | 
|  | enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem | 
|  | use due to the cache aliasing requirements. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows | 
|  | userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions. | 
|  | This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of | 
|  | /dev/mem. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If in doubt, say Y. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP | 
|  | bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages" | 
|  | default y | 
|  | ---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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config EARLY_PRINTK | 
|  | bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | default y | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial | 
|  | port. | 
|  |  | 
|  | This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very | 
|  | early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation | 
|  | it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate | 
|  | with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here, | 
|  | unless you want to debug such a crash. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP | 
|  | bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port" | 
|  | default n | 
|  | depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port. | 
|  |  | 
|  | This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very | 
|  | early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation | 
|  | it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate | 
|  | with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here, | 
|  | unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW | 
|  | bool "Check for stack overflows" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | ---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--- | 
|  | 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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | This option will slow down process creation somewhat. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS | 
|  | bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | depends on SMP | 
|  | default n | 
|  | ---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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Say N if unsure. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config X86_PTDUMP | 
|  | bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | select DEBUG_FS | 
|  | ---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. | 
|  | It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production | 
|  | kernel. | 
|  | If in doubt, say "N" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_RODATA | 
|  | bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" | 
|  | default y | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | ---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. | 
|  | If in doubt, say "Y". | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST | 
|  | bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_RODATA | 
|  | default y | 
|  | ---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" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_NX_TEST | 
|  | tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability | 
|  | and the software setup of this feature. | 
|  | If in doubt, say "N" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config 4KSTACKS | 
|  | bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" | 
|  | depends on X86_32 | 
|  | ---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 | 
|  | on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option | 
|  | will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DOUBLEFAULT | 
|  | default y | 
|  | bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | depends on X86_32 | 
|  | ---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 | 
|  | hair. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IOMMU_DEBUG | 
|  | bool "Enable IOMMU debugging" | 
|  | depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | depends on X86_64 | 
|  | ---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 | 
|  | time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather | 
|  | list merging.  Currently not recommended for production | 
|  | code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough | 
|  | IOMMU/AGP aperture.  Most of the options enabled by this can | 
|  | be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line | 
|  | options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more | 
|  | details. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IOMMU_STRESS | 
|  | bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode" | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related | 
|  | code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option | 
|  | will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for | 
|  | testing. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IOMMU_LEAK | 
|  | bool "IOMMU leak tracing" | 
|  | depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG | 
|  | ---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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config X86_DS_SELFTEST | 
|  | bool "DS selftest" | 
|  | default y | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | depends on X86_DS | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | Perform Debug Store selftests at boot time. | 
|  | If in doubt, say "N". | 
|  |  | 
|  | config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT | 
|  | def_bool y | 
|  |  | 
|  | config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST | 
|  | bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time. | 
|  | This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction | 
|  | decoder code. | 
|  | If unsure, say "N". | 
|  |  | 
|  | # | 
|  | # IO delay types: | 
|  | # | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 | 
|  | int | 
|  | default "0" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED | 
|  | int | 
|  | default "1" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY | 
|  | int | 
|  | default "2" | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE | 
|  | int | 
|  | default "3" | 
|  |  | 
|  | choice | 
|  | prompt "IO delay type" | 
|  | default IO_DELAY_0X80 | 
|  |  | 
|  | config IO_DELAY_0X80 | 
|  | bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]" | 
|  | ---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--- | 
|  | 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--- | 
|  | 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--- | 
|  | No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO | 
|  | delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines. | 
|  |  | 
|  | endchoice | 
|  |  | 
|  | if IO_DELAY_0X80 | 
|  | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | 
|  | int | 
|  | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 | 
|  | endif | 
|  |  | 
|  | if IO_DELAY_0XED | 
|  | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | 
|  | int | 
|  | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED | 
|  | endif | 
|  |  | 
|  | if IO_DELAY_UDELAY | 
|  | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | 
|  | int | 
|  | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY | 
|  | endif | 
|  |  | 
|  | if IO_DELAY_NONE | 
|  | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | 
|  | int | 
|  | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE | 
|  | endif | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS | 
|  | bool "Debug boot parameters" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_FS | 
|  | ---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--- | 
|  | Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config OPTIMIZE_INLINING | 
|  | bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'" | 
|  | ---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 | 
|  | compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and | 
|  | enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully | 
|  | this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the | 
|  | decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option | 
|  | is there to test gcc for this. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If unsure, say N. | 
|  |  | 
|  | config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS | 
|  | bool "Strict copy size checks" | 
|  | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING | 
|  | ---help--- | 
|  | Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user | 
|  | copy operations into compile time failures. | 
|  |  | 
|  | The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there | 
|  | are sufficient security checks on the length argument of | 
|  | the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is | 
|  | within bounds. | 
|  |  | 
|  | If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N. | 
|  |  | 
|  | endmenu |