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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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Ingo Molnard0926332008-07-18 00:26:59 +02008config STRICT_DEVMEM
Stefan Richter16104b552008-06-05 22:47:13 +02009 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010010 ---help---
Linus Torvaldsf2d0f1d2008-07-21 13:04:08 -070011 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
Stefan Richter16104b552008-06-05 22:47:13 +020012 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
13 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
Ingo Molnard0926332008-07-18 00:26:59 +020014 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
15 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
16 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
Stefan Richter16104b552008-06-05 22:47:13 +020017
18 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
19 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
20 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
21 /dev/mem.
22
23 If in doubt, say Y.
Arjan van de Venae531c22008-04-24 23:40:47 +020024
Ben Collins6bcb13b2008-06-18 14:04:35 -040025config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
26 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
27 default y
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010028 ---help---
Ben Collins6bcb13b2008-06-18 14:04:35 -040029 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
30 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
31 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070033config EARLY_PRINTK
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -080034 bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070035 default y
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010036 ---help---
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070037 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
38 port.
39
40 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
41 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
42 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
43 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
44 unless you want to debug such a crash.
45
Yinghai Lu5c059172008-07-24 17:29:40 -070046config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
47 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
Ingo Molnar97499862008-07-26 17:28:11 +020048 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010049 ---help---
Yinghai Lu5c059172008-07-24 17:29:40 -070050 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
51
52 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
53 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
54 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
55 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
56 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
57
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +010058config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
59 bool "Early printk via the EFI framebuffer"
60 depends on EFI && EARLY_PRINTK
61 select FONT_SUPPORT
62 ---help---
63 Write kernel log output directly into the EFI framebuffer.
64
65 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
66 early before the console code is initialized.
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
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010072 ---help---
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020073 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
Borislav Petkov11cc8512014-01-18 12:48:15 +010080config EFI_PGT_DUMP
81 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
82 depends on EFI && X86_PTDUMP
83 ---help---
84 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
85 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
86 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
87 table.
88
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080089config DEBUG_RODATA
90 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010091 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080092 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010093 ---help---
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080094 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
95 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010096 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
97 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080098
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +010099config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
100 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
101 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
Ingo Molnar72370f22008-02-13 16:15:34 +0100102 default y
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100103 ---help---
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100104 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
105 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
106 If in doubt, say "N"
107
matthieu castet84e1c6b2010-11-16 22:35:16 +0100108config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
109 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
110 depends on MODULES
111 ---help---
112 This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
113 kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
114 of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
115 patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
116 against certain classes of kernel exploits.
117 If in doubt, say "N".
118
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100119config DEBUG_NX_TEST
120 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
121 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100122 ---help---
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100123 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
124 and the software setup of this feature.
125 If in doubt, say "N"
126
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200127config DOUBLEFAULT
128 default y
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800129 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100130 ---help---
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700131 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
132 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
133 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
134 hair.
135
Alex Shi3df32122012-06-28 09:02:20 +0800136config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
137 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
Paul Bollecd69aa62013-03-14 12:54:37 +0100138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Alex Shi3df32122012-06-28 09:02:20 +0800139 ---help---
140
141 X86-only for now.
142
143 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
144 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
145 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
146 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
147 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
148 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
149 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
150
151 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
152
153 If in doubt, say "N".
154
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700155config 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
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100159 ---help---
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700160 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
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200168 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700169 details.
170
Joerg Roedel2be69c72009-05-22 12:15:49 +0200171config IOMMU_STRESS
172 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
173 ---help---
174 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
175 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
176 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
177 testing.
178
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700179config IOMMU_LEAK
180 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
FUJITA Tomonori19c1a6f2009-04-14 09:43:19 +0900181 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100182 ---help---
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700183 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
184 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
185
Pekka Paalanen6bc5c362009-01-03 21:23:51 +0200186config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
187 def_bool y
Pekka Paalanen8b7d89d2008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200188
Masami Hiramatsuca0e9ba2009-08-13 16:34:21 -0400189config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
OGAWA Hirofumicbe5c342009-12-06 20:14:29 +0900190 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
Ingo Molnarf8f20232014-02-05 06:51:37 +0100192 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
Masami Hiramatsuca0e9ba2009-08-13 16:34:21 -0400193 ---help---
194 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
195 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
196 decoder code.
197 If unsure, say "N".
198
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100199#
200# IO delay types:
201#
202
203config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
204 int
205 default "0"
206
207config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
208 int
209 default "1"
210
211config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
212 int
213 default "2"
214
215config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
216 int
217 default "3"
218
219choice
220 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100221 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100222
223config IO_DELAY_0X80
224 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100225 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100226 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
227 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
228
229config IO_DELAY_0XED
230 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100231 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100232 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
233 often used as a hardware-debug port.
234
235config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
236 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100237 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100238 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
239 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
240
241config IO_DELAY_NONE
242 bool "no port-IO delay"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100243 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100244 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
245 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
246
247endchoice
248
249if IO_DELAY_0X80
250config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
251 int
252 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
253endif
254
255if IO_DELAY_0XED
256config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
257 int
258 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
259endif
260
261if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
262config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
263 int
264 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
265endif
266
267if IO_DELAY_NONE
268config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
269 int
270 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
271endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100272
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100273config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
274 bool "Debug boot parameters"
275 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
276 depends on DEBUG_FS
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100277 ---help---
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100278 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
279
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100280config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100281 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100283 ---help---
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100284 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100285
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100286config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
287 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100288 ---help---
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100289 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
290 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
291 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
292 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
Sitsofe Wheeler63fb7082008-10-11 20:27:53 +0100293 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
294 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
295 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
296 is there to test gcc for this.
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200297
Ingo Molnar3f9b5cc2008-07-18 16:30:05 +0200298 If unsure, say N.
299
Andy Lutomirskia97439a2015-07-15 10:29:41 -0700300config DEBUG_ENTRY
301 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
302 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
303 ---help---
304 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
305 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
306 exits or otherwise impact performance.
307
308 This is currently used to help test NMI code.
309
310 If unsure, say N.
311
Don Zickus99e8b9c2011-10-13 15:14:26 -0400312config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
313 bool "NMI Selftest"
Don Zickus4f941c52011-12-07 16:06:30 -0500314 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
Don Zickus99e8b9c2011-10-13 15:14:26 -0400315 ---help---
316 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
317 that the NMI behaves correctly.
318
319 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
320 function properly.
321
322 If unsure, say N.
323
Bryan O'Donoghue28a375d2015-01-30 16:29:38 +0000324config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
325 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
326 default n
327 depends on INTEL_IMR
328 ---help---
329 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
330 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
331 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
332 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
333 test your changes.
334
335 If unsure say N here.
336
Borislav Petkov5700f742013-06-09 12:07:32 +0200337config X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
338 bool "Debug alternatives"
339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
340 ---help---
341 This option causes additional code to be generated which
342 fails if static_cpu_has() is used before alternatives have
343 run.
344
345 If unsure, say N.
346
Ingo Molnare97131a2015-05-05 11:34:49 +0200347config X86_DEBUG_FPU
348 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
350 default y
351 ---help---
352 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
353 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
354 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
355 to the kernel.
356
357 If unsure, say N.
358
Srinivas Pandruvada956079e2015-05-06 12:15:54 -0700359config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
360 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
361 select DEBUG_FS
362 select IOSF_MBI
363 ---help---
364 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
365 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
366 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
367 The current power state can be read from
368 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
369
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200370endmenu