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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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070019config EARLY_PRINTK
Ingo Molnar076f9772008-01-30 13:33:06 +010020 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021 default y
22 help
23 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
24 port.
25
26 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
27 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
28 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
29 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
30 unless you want to debug such a crash.
31
32config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
33 bool "Check for stack overflows"
34 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Adrian Bunkdab175f2005-07-27 11:44:23 -070035 help
36 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
37 drops below a certain limit.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
40 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
41 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
42 help
43 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
44 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
45
46 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
47
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070048config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080049 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Thomas Gleixnerb1d95f42008-02-09 23:24:09 +010050 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070051 help
52 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
53 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
54 of memory corruptions.
55
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010056config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
57 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
58 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
59 depends on X86_64_SMP
60 default n
61 help
62 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
63 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
64 and decreases performance.
65
66 Say N if unsure.
67
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020068config X86_PTDUMP
69 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
H. Peter Anvinfe770bf02008-04-17 17:40:45 +020070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020071 select DEBUG_FS
72 help
73 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
74 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
75 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
76 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
77 kernel.
78 If in doubt, say "N"
79
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080080config DEBUG_RODATA
81 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010082 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080083 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
84 help
85 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
86 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010087 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
88 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080089
Ingo Molnar00d1c5e2008-04-17 17:40:45 +020090config DIRECT_GBPAGES
91 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
93 help
94 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
95 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
96 pressure.
97
98 This is experimental code.
99
100 If in doubt, say "N".
101
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100102config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
103 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
104 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
105 help
106 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
107 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
108 If in doubt, say "N"
109
110config DEBUG_NX_TEST
111 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
113 help
114 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
115 and the software setup of this feature.
116 If in doubt, say "N"
117
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700118config 4KSTACKS
119 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700120 depends on X86_32
Ingo Molnard61ecf02008-04-04 17:11:09 +0200121 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700122 help
123 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
124 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
125 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
126 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
127 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
128
129config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700130 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700131 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700132 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700133
134config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700135 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100136 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700137
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200138config DOUBLEFAULT
139 default y
140 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700141 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200142 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700143 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
144 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
145 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
146 hair.
147
148config IOMMU_DEBUG
149 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200150 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700151 depends on X86_64
152 help
153 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
154 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
155 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
156 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
157 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
158 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
159 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
160 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
161 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
162 details.
163
164config IOMMU_LEAK
165 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
166 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
167 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
168 help
169 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
170 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
171
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100172#
173# IO delay types:
174#
175
176config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
177 int
178 default "0"
179
180config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
181 int
182 default "1"
183
184config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
185 int
186 default "2"
187
188config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
189 int
190 default "3"
191
192choice
193 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100194 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100195
196config IO_DELAY_0X80
197 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100198 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100199 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
200 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
201
202config IO_DELAY_0XED
203 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
204 help
205 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
206 often used as a hardware-debug port.
207
208config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
209 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
210 help
211 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
212 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
213
214config IO_DELAY_NONE
215 bool "no port-IO delay"
216 help
217 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
218 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
219
220endchoice
221
222if IO_DELAY_0X80
223config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
224 int
225 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
226endif
227
228if IO_DELAY_0XED
229config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
230 int
231 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
232endif
233
234if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
235config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
236 int
237 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
238endif
239
240if IO_DELAY_NONE
241config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
242 int
243 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
244endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100245
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100246config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
247 bool "Debug boot parameters"
248 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
249 depends on DEBUG_FS
250 help
251 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
252
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100253config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100254 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100255 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100256 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100257 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100258
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700259endmenu
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100260
261config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
262 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
263 default y
264 help
265 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
266 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
267 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
268 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
269 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
270 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
271 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
272 test gcc for this.