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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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070037config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080038 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Thomas Gleixnerb1d95f42008-02-09 23:24:09 +010039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040 help
41 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
42 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
43 of memory corruptions.
44
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010045config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
46 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
47 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
48 depends on X86_64_SMP
49 default n
50 help
51 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
52 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
53 and decreases performance.
54
55 Say N if unsure.
56
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020057config X86_PTDUMP
58 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
H. Peter Anvinfe770bf02008-04-17 17:40:45 +020059 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020060 select DEBUG_FS
61 help
62 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
63 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
64 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
65 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
66 kernel.
67 If in doubt, say "N"
68
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080069config DEBUG_RODATA
70 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010071 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080072 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
73 help
74 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
75 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010076 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
77 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080078
Ingo Molnar00d1c5e2008-04-17 17:40:45 +020079config DIRECT_GBPAGES
80 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
82 help
83 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
84 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
85 pressure.
86
87 This is experimental code.
88
89 If in doubt, say "N".
90
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +010091config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
92 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
93 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
94 help
95 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
96 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
97 If in doubt, say "N"
98
99config DEBUG_NX_TEST
100 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
101 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
102 help
103 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
104 and the software setup of this feature.
105 If in doubt, say "N"
106
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700107config 4KSTACKS
108 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700109 depends on X86_32
Ingo Molnard61ecf02008-04-04 17:11:09 +0200110 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700111 help
112 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
113 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
114 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
115 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
116 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
117
118config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700119 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700120 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700121 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700122
123config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700124 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100125 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700126
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200127config DOUBLEFAULT
128 default y
129 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700130 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200131 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700132 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
133 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
134 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
135 hair.
136
137config IOMMU_DEBUG
138 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200139 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700140 depends on X86_64
141 help
142 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
143 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
144 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
145 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
146 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
147 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
148 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
149 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
150 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
151 details.
152
153config IOMMU_LEAK
154 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
156 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
157 help
158 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
159 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
160
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100161#
162# IO delay types:
163#
164
165config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
166 int
167 default "0"
168
169config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
170 int
171 default "1"
172
173config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
174 int
175 default "2"
176
177config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
178 int
179 default "3"
180
181choice
182 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100183 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100184
185config IO_DELAY_0X80
186 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100187 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100188 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
189 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
190
191config IO_DELAY_0XED
192 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
193 help
194 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
195 often used as a hardware-debug port.
196
197config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
198 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
199 help
200 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
201 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
202
203config IO_DELAY_NONE
204 bool "no port-IO delay"
205 help
206 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
207 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
208
209endchoice
210
211if IO_DELAY_0X80
212config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
213 int
214 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
215endif
216
217if IO_DELAY_0XED
218config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
219 int
220 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
221endif
222
223if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
224config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
225 int
226 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
227endif
228
229if IO_DELAY_NONE
230config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
231 int
232 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
233endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100234
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100235config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
236 bool "Debug boot parameters"
237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
238 depends on DEBUG_FS
239 help
240 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
241
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100242config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100243 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100245 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100246 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100247
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700248endmenu