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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.
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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070033config EARLY_PRINTK
Ingo Molnar076f9772008-01-30 13:33:06 +010034 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
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"
48 default n
Ingo Molnar97499862008-07-26 17:28:11 +020049 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010050 ---help---
Yinghai Lu5c059172008-07-24 17:29:40 -070051 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
52
53 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
54 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
55 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
56 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
57 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
58
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070059config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
60 bool "Check for stack overflows"
61 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010062 ---help---
Adrian Bunkdab175f2005-07-27 11:44:23 -070063 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
64 drops below a certain limit.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
67 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
68 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010069 ---help---
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070070 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
71 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
72
73 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
74
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010075config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
76 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
77 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar3e5095d2009-01-27 17:07:08 +010078 depends on SMP
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010079 default n
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010080 ---help---
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010081 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
82 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
83 and decreases performance.
84
85 Say N if unsure.
86
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020087config X86_PTDUMP
88 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
H. Peter Anvinfe770bf02008-04-17 17:40:45 +020089 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020090 select DEBUG_FS
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +010091 ---help---
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020092 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
93 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
94 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
95 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
96 kernel.
97 If in doubt, say "N"
98
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080099config DEBUG_RODATA
100 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100101 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -0800102 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100103 ---help---
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -0800104 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
105 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100106 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
107 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -0800108
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100109config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
110 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
111 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
Ingo Molnar72370f22008-02-13 16:15:34 +0100112 default y
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100113 ---help---
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100114 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
115 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
116 If in doubt, say "N"
117
118config DEBUG_NX_TEST
119 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100121 ---help---
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100122 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
123 and the software setup of this feature.
124 If in doubt, say "N"
125
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700126config 4KSTACKS
127 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700128 depends on X86_32
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100129 ---help---
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
131 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
132 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
133 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
134 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
135
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200136config DOUBLEFAULT
137 default y
138 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700139 depends on X86_32
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100140 ---help---
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700141 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
142 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
143 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
144 hair.
145
146config IOMMU_DEBUG
147 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200148 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700149 depends on X86_64
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100150 ---help---
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700151 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
152 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
153 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
154 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
155 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
156 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
157 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
158 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
159 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
160 details.
161
Joerg Roedel2be69c72009-05-22 12:15:49 +0200162config IOMMU_STRESS
163 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
164 ---help---
165 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
166 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
167 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
168 testing.
169
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700170config IOMMU_LEAK
171 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
FUJITA Tomonori19c1a6f2009-04-14 09:43:19 +0900172 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100173 ---help---
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700174 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
175 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
176
Markus Metzger8a327f62009-03-13 10:45:07 +0100177config X86_DS_SELFTEST
178 bool "DS selftest"
179 default y
180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
181 depends on X86_DS
182 ---help---
183 Perform Debug Store selftests at boot time.
184 If in doubt, say "N".
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
Masami Hiramatsuca0e9ba2009-08-13 16:34:21 -0400192 ---help---
193 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
194 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
195 decoder code.
196 If unsure, say "N".
197
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100198#
199# IO delay types:
200#
201
202config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
203 int
204 default "0"
205
206config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
207 int
208 default "1"
209
210config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
211 int
212 default "2"
213
214config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
215 int
216 default "3"
217
218choice
219 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100220 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100221
222config IO_DELAY_0X80
223 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100224 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100225 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
226 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
227
228config IO_DELAY_0XED
229 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100230 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100231 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
232 often used as a hardware-debug port.
233
234config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
235 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100236 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100237 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
238 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
239
240config IO_DELAY_NONE
241 bool "no port-IO delay"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100242 ---help---
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100243 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
244 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
245
246endchoice
247
248if IO_DELAY_0X80
249config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
250 int
251 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
252endif
253
254if IO_DELAY_0XED
255config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
256 int
257 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
258endif
259
260if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
261config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
262 int
263 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
264endif
265
266if IO_DELAY_NONE
267config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
268 int
269 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
270endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100271
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100272config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
273 bool "Debug boot parameters"
274 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
275 depends on DEBUG_FS
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100276 ---help---
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100277 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
278
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100279config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100280 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100282 ---help---
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100283 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100284
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100285config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
286 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
Ingo Molnar8f9ca472009-02-05 16:21:53 +0100287 ---help---
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100288 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
289 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
290 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
291 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
Sitsofe Wheeler63fb7082008-10-11 20:27:53 +0100292 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
293 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
294 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
295 is there to test gcc for this.
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200296
Ingo Molnar3f9b5cc2008-07-18 16:30:05 +0200297 If unsure, say N.
298
Arjan van de Ven63312b62009-10-02 07:50:50 -0700299config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
300 bool "Strict copy size checks"
Arjan van de Venad8f4352009-10-06 07:04:52 -0700301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Arjan van de Ven63312b62009-10-02 07:50:50 -0700302 ---help---
303 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
304 copy operations into compile time failures.
305
306 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
307 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
308 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
309 within bounds.
310
311 If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N.
312
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200313endmenu