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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
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
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010050config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
51 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
52 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
53 depends on X86_64_SMP
54 default n
55 help
56 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
57 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
58 and decreases performance.
59
60 Say N if unsure.
61
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080062config DEBUG_RODATA
63 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
64 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
65 help
66 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
67 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
68 data. This option may have a slight performance impact because a
69 portion of the kernel code won't be covered by a 2MB TLB anymore.
70 If in doubt, say "N".
71
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070072config 4KSTACKS
73 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
74 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070075 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070076 help
77 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
78 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
79 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
80 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
81 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
82
83config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070084 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070086 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070087
88config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070089 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +010090 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070091
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +020092config DOUBLEFAULT
93 default y
94 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070095 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +020096 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -070097 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
98 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
99 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
100 hair.
101
102config IOMMU_DEBUG
103 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200104 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700105 depends on X86_64
106 help
107 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
108 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
109 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
110 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
111 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
112 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
113 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
114 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
115 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
116 details.
117
118config IOMMU_LEAK
119 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
121 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
122 help
123 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
124 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
125
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100126#
127# IO delay types:
128#
129
130config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
131 int
132 default "0"
133
134config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
135 int
136 default "1"
137
138config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
139 int
140 default "2"
141
142config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
143 int
144 default "3"
145
146choice
147 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnard0049e72008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100148 default IO_DELAY_0XED
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100149
150config IO_DELAY_0X80
151 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100152 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100153 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
154 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
155
156config IO_DELAY_0XED
157 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
158 help
159 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
160 often used as a hardware-debug port.
161
162config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
163 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
164 help
165 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
166 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
167
168config IO_DELAY_NONE
169 bool "no port-IO delay"
170 help
171 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
172 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
173
174endchoice
175
176if IO_DELAY_0X80
177config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
178 int
179 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
180endif
181
182if IO_DELAY_0XED
183config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
184 int
185 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
186endif
187
188if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
189config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
190 int
191 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
192endif
193
194if IO_DELAY_NONE
195config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
196 int
197 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
198endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100199
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100200config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
201 bool "Debug boot parameters"
202 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
203 depends on DEBUG_FS
204 help
205 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
206
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700207endmenu