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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"
10 default y
11 help
12 The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
13 space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
14 dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
15 option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
16 kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
17 obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
18 debugging the kernel.
19
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020config EARLY_PRINTK
Ingo Molnar076f9772008-01-30 13:33:06 +010021 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070022 default y
23 help
24 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
25 port.
26
27 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
28 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
29 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
30 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
31 unless you want to debug such a crash.
32
33config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
34 bool "Check for stack overflows"
35 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Adrian Bunkdab175f2005-07-27 11:44:23 -070036 help
37 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
38 drops below a certain limit.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
41 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
42 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
43 help
44 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
45 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
46
47 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
48
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070049config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080050 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Thomas Gleixnerb1d95f42008-02-09 23:24:09 +010051 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070052 help
53 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
54 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
55 of memory corruptions.
56
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010057config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
58 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
59 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
60 depends on X86_64_SMP
61 default n
62 help
63 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
64 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
65 and decreases performance.
66
67 Say N if unsure.
68
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020069config X86_PTDUMP
70 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
H. Peter Anvinfe770bf02008-04-17 17:40:45 +020071 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020072 select DEBUG_FS
73 help
74 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
75 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
76 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
77 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
78 kernel.
79 If in doubt, say "N"
80
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080081config DEBUG_RODATA
82 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010083 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080084 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
85 help
86 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
87 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010088 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
89 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080090
Ingo Molnar00d1c5e2008-04-17 17:40:45 +020091config DIRECT_GBPAGES
92 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
93 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
94 help
95 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
96 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
97 pressure.
98
99 This is experimental code.
100
101 If in doubt, say "N".
102
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100103config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
104 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
105 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
106 help
107 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
108 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
109 If in doubt, say "N"
110
111config DEBUG_NX_TEST
112 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
113 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
114 help
115 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
116 and the software setup of this feature.
117 If in doubt, say "N"
118
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119config 4KSTACKS
120 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700121 depends on X86_32
Ingo Molnard61ecf02008-04-04 17:11:09 +0200122 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700123 help
124 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
125 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
126 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
127 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
128 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
129
130config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700131 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700132 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700133 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700134
135config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700136 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100137 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700138
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200139config DOUBLEFAULT
140 default y
141 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700142 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200143 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700144 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
145 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
146 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
147 hair.
148
149config IOMMU_DEBUG
150 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200151 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700152 depends on X86_64
153 help
154 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
155 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
156 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
157 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
158 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
159 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
160 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
161 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
162 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
163 details.
164
165config IOMMU_LEAK
166 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
168 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
169 help
170 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
171 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
172
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100173#
174# IO delay types:
175#
176
177config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
178 int
179 default "0"
180
181config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
182 int
183 default "1"
184
185config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
186 int
187 default "2"
188
189config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
190 int
191 default "3"
192
193choice
194 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100195 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100196
197config IO_DELAY_0X80
198 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100199 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100200 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
201 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
202
203config IO_DELAY_0XED
204 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
205 help
206 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
207 often used as a hardware-debug port.
208
209config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
210 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
211 help
212 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
213 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
214
215config IO_DELAY_NONE
216 bool "no port-IO delay"
217 help
218 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
219 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
220
221endchoice
222
223if IO_DELAY_0X80
224config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
225 int
226 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
227endif
228
229if IO_DELAY_0XED
230config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
231 int
232 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
233endif
234
235if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
236config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
237 int
238 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
239endif
240
241if IO_DELAY_NONE
242config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
243 int
244 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
245endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100246
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100247config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
248 bool "Debug boot parameters"
249 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
250 depends on DEBUG_FS
251 help
252 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
253
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100254config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100255 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100256 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100257 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100258 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100259
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700260endmenu