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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001menu "Kernel hacking"
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Ingo Molnar55f327f2006-07-03 00:24:43 -07003config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -07004 def_bool y
Ingo Molnar55f327f2006-07-03 00:24:43 -07005
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07006source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
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Arjan van de Venae531c22008-04-24 23:40:47 +02008config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
9 bool "Disable promiscuous /dev/mem"
Arjan van de Venae531c22008-04-24 23:40:47 +020010 help
11 The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
12 space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
13 dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
14 option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
15 kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
16 obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
17 debugging the kernel.
18
Ben Collins6bcb13b2008-06-18 14:04:35 -040019config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
20 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
21 default y
22 help
23 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
24 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
25 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
26
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027config EARLY_PRINTK
Ingo Molnar076f9772008-01-30 13:33:06 +010028 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070029 default y
30 help
31 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
32 port.
33
34 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
35 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
36 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
37 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
38 unless you want to debug such a crash.
39
40config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
41 bool "Check for stack overflows"
42 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Adrian Bunkdab175f2005-07-27 11:44:23 -070043 help
44 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
45 drops below a certain limit.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070046
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
48 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
49 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
50 help
51 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
52 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
53
54 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
55
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070056config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080057 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Thomas Gleixnerb1d95f42008-02-09 23:24:09 +010058 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070059 help
60 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
61 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
62 of memory corruptions.
63
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010064config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
65 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
66 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
67 depends on X86_64_SMP
68 default n
69 help
70 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
71 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
72 and decreases performance.
73
74 Say N if unsure.
75
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020076config X86_PTDUMP
77 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
H. Peter Anvinfe770bf2008-04-17 17:40:45 +020078 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020079 select DEBUG_FS
80 help
81 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
82 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
83 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
84 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
85 kernel.
86 If in doubt, say "N"
87
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080088config DEBUG_RODATA
89 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010090 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080091 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
92 help
93 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
94 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010095 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
96 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080097
Ingo Molnar00d1c5e2008-04-17 17:40:45 +020098config DIRECT_GBPAGES
99 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
100 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
101 help
102 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
103 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
104 pressure.
105
106 This is experimental code.
107
108 If in doubt, say "N".
109
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100110config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
111 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
112 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
113 help
114 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
115 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
116 If in doubt, say "N"
117
118config DEBUG_NX_TEST
119 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
121 help
122 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
123 and the software setup of this feature.
124 If in doubt, say "N"
125
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700126config 4KSTACKS
127 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700128 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700129 help
130 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
131 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
132 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
133 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
134 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
135
136config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700137 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700138 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700139 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700140
141config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700142 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100143 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700144
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200145config DOUBLEFAULT
146 default y
147 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700148 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200149 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700150 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
151 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
152 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
153 hair.
154
155config IOMMU_DEBUG
156 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200157 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700158 depends on X86_64
159 help
160 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
161 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
162 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
163 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
164 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
165 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
166 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
167 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
168 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
169 details.
170
171config IOMMU_LEAK
172 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
174 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
175 help
176 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
177 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
178
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100179#
180# IO delay types:
181#
182
183config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
184 int
185 default "0"
186
187config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
188 int
189 default "1"
190
191config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
192 int
193 default "2"
194
195config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
196 int
197 default "3"
198
199choice
200 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100201 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100202
203config IO_DELAY_0X80
204 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100205 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100206 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
207 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
208
209config IO_DELAY_0XED
210 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
211 help
212 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
213 often used as a hardware-debug port.
214
215config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
216 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
217 help
218 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
219 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
220
221config IO_DELAY_NONE
222 bool "no port-IO delay"
223 help
224 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
225 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
226
227endchoice
228
229if IO_DELAY_0X80
230config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
231 int
232 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
233endif
234
235if IO_DELAY_0XED
236config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
237 int
238 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
239endif
240
241if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
242config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
243 int
244 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
245endif
246
247if IO_DELAY_NONE
248config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
249 int
250 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
251endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100252
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100253config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
254 bool "Debug boot parameters"
255 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
256 depends on DEBUG_FS
257 help
258 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
259
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100260config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100261 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100262 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100263 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100264 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100265
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100266config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
267 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
Linus Torvalds6d98ca72008-04-30 19:50:03 -0700268 depends on BROKEN
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100269 help
270 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
271 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
272 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
273 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
274 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
275 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
276 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
277 test gcc for this.
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200278
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