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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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121 help
122 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
123 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
124 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
125 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
126 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
127
128config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700129 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700131 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700132
133config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700134 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100135 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700136
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200137config DOUBLEFAULT
138 default y
139 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700140 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200141 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700142 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
143 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
144 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
145 hair.
146
147config IOMMU_DEBUG
148 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200149 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700150 depends on X86_64
151 help
152 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
153 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
154 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
155 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
156 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
157 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
158 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
159 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
160 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
161 details.
162
163config IOMMU_LEAK
164 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
166 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
167 help
168 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
169 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
170
Pekka Paalanen10c43d22008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200171config MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
172 bool
Pekka Paalanen86069782008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200173
Pekka Paalanen8b7d89d2008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200174config MMIOTRACE
Pekka Paalanend61fc442008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200175 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
Pekka Paalanenbd8ac682008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Pekka Paalanenf984b512008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200177 select TRACING
Pekka Paalanen10c43d22008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200178 select MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
Pekka Paalanend61fc442008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200179 default y
Pekka Paalanen8b7d89d2008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200180 help
Pekka Paalanend61fc442008-05-12 21:20:57 +0200181 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
182 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
183 implementation and works via page faults. A user space program is
184 required to collect the MMIO data from debugfs files.
185 Tracing is disabled by default and can be enabled from a debugfs
186 file.
Pekka Paalanen8b7d89d2008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200187
188 See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace
189 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
190
191config MMIOTRACE_TEST
192 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
193 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
Pekka Paalanen8b7d89d2008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200194 help
195 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
196 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
197 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
198
199 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
200
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100201#
202# IO delay types:
203#
204
205config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
206 int
207 default "0"
208
209config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
210 int
211 default "1"
212
213config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
214 int
215 default "2"
216
217config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
218 int
219 default "3"
220
221choice
222 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100223 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100224
225config IO_DELAY_0X80
226 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100227 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100228 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
229 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
230
231config IO_DELAY_0XED
232 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
233 help
234 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
235 often used as a hardware-debug port.
236
237config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
238 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
239 help
240 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
241 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
242
243config IO_DELAY_NONE
244 bool "no port-IO delay"
245 help
246 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
247 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
248
249endchoice
250
251if IO_DELAY_0X80
252config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
253 int
254 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
255endif
256
257if IO_DELAY_0XED
258config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
259 int
260 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
261endif
262
263if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
264config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
265 int
266 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
267endif
268
269if IO_DELAY_NONE
270config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
271 int
272 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
273endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100274
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100275config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
276 bool "Debug boot parameters"
277 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
278 depends on DEBUG_FS
279 help
280 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
281
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100282config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100283 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100284 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100285 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100286 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100287
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100288config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
289 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
Linus Torvalds6d98ca72008-04-30 19:50:03 -0700290 depends on BROKEN
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100291 help
292 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
293 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
294 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
295 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
296 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
297 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
298 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
299 test gcc for this.
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200300
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