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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"
7
8config EARLY_PRINTK
Ingo Molnar076f9772008-01-30 13:33:06 +01009 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 default y
11 help
12 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
13 port.
14
15 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
16 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
17 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
18 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
19 unless you want to debug such a crash.
20
21config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
22 bool "Check for stack overflows"
23 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Adrian Bunkdab175f2005-07-27 11:44:23 -070024 help
25 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
26 drops below a certain limit.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070028config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
29 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
30 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
31 help
32 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
33 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
34
35 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
36
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070037config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080038 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Thomas Gleixnerb1d95f42008-02-09 23:24:09 +010039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040 help
41 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
42 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
43 of memory corruptions.
44
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010045config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
46 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
47 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
48 depends on X86_64_SMP
49 default n
50 help
51 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
52 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
53 and decreases performance.
54
55 Say N if unsure.
56
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020057config X86_PTDUMP
58 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
59 depends on X86_64
60 select DEBUG_FS
61 help
62 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
63 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
64 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
65 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
66 kernel.
67 If in doubt, say "N"
68
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080069config DEBUG_RODATA
70 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010071 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080072 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
73 help
74 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
75 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010076 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
77 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080078
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +010079config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
80 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
81 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
82 help
83 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
84 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
85 If in doubt, say "N"
86
87config DEBUG_NX_TEST
88 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
89 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
90 help
91 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
92 and the software setup of this feature.
93 If in doubt, say "N"
94
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070095config 4KSTACKS
96 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070098 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 help
100 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
101 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
102 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
103 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
104 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
105
106config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700107 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700108 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700109 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700110
111config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700112 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100113 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700114
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200115config DOUBLEFAULT
116 default y
117 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700118 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200119 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700120 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
121 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
122 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
123 hair.
124
125config IOMMU_DEBUG
126 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200127 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700128 depends on X86_64
129 help
130 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
131 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
132 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
133 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
134 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
135 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
136 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
137 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
138 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
139 details.
140
141config IOMMU_LEAK
142 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
143 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
144 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
145 help
146 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
147 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
148
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100149#
150# IO delay types:
151#
152
153config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
154 int
155 default "0"
156
157config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
158 int
159 default "1"
160
161config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
162 int
163 default "2"
164
165config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
166 int
167 default "3"
168
169choice
170 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100171 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100172
173config IO_DELAY_0X80
174 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100175 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100176 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
177 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
178
179config IO_DELAY_0XED
180 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
181 help
182 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
183 often used as a hardware-debug port.
184
185config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
186 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
187 help
188 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
189 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
190
191config IO_DELAY_NONE
192 bool "no port-IO delay"
193 help
194 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
195 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
196
197endchoice
198
199if IO_DELAY_0X80
200config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
201 int
202 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
203endif
204
205if IO_DELAY_0XED
206config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
207 int
208 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
209endif
210
211if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
212config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
213 int
214 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
215endif
216
217if IO_DELAY_NONE
218config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
219 int
220 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
221endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100222
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100223config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
224 bool "Debug boot parameters"
225 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
226 depends on DEBUG_FS
227 help
228 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
229
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100230config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100231 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100233 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100234 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100235
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700236endmenu