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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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8config EARLY_PRINTK
Adrian Bunk1b8a8e92007-10-29 13:49:36 +01009 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED && DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_32
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
37comment "Page alloc debug is incompatible with Software Suspend on i386"
Rafael J. Wysockib0cb1a12007-07-29 23:24:36 +020038 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIBERNATION
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070039 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040
41config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080042 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Rafael J. Wysockib0cb1a12007-07-29 23:24:36 +020043 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION && !HUGETLBFS
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070044 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070045 help
46 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
47 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
48 of memory corruptions.
49
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080050config DEBUG_RODATA
51 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
52 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
53 help
54 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
55 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
56 data. This option may have a slight performance impact because a
57 portion of the kernel code won't be covered by a 2MB TLB anymore.
58 If in doubt, say "N".
59
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070060config 4KSTACKS
61 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
62 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070063 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070064 help
65 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
66 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
67 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
68 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
69 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
70
71config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070072 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070073 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070074 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070075
76config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070077 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070079 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +020081config DOUBLEFAULT
82 default y
83 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070084 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +020085 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070086 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
87 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
88 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
89 hair.
90
91config IOMMU_DEBUG
92 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +020093 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070094 depends on X86_64
95 help
96 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
97 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
98 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
99 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
100 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
101 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
102 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
103 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
104 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
105 details.
106
107config IOMMU_LEAK
108 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
109 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
110 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
111 help
112 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
113 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700115endmenu