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Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +08001menu "Kernel hacking"
2
3source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
4
Robin Getza45d5752009-01-07 23:14:38 +08005config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
6 bool "Check for stack overflows"
7 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8 help
9 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
10 drops below a certain limit.
11
12config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
13 bool "Enable stack utilization instrumentation"
14 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
15 help
16 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
17 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T output.
18
19 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
20
Sonic Zhanga5ac0122008-10-13 14:07:19 +080021config HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
Mike Frysinger459249a2009-01-07 23:14:39 +080022 def_bool y
23
Robin Getz9f06c382008-10-10 18:13:21 +080024config DEBUG_VERBOSE
25 bool "Verbose fault messages"
26 default y
27 select PRINTK
28 help
29 When a program crashes due to an exception, or the kernel detects
30 an internal error, the kernel can print a not so brief message
31 explaining what the problem was. This debugging information is
32 useful to developers and kernel hackers when tracking down problems,
33 but mostly meaningless to other people. This is always helpful for
34 debugging but serves no purpose on a production system.
35 Most people should say N here.
36
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +080037config DEBUG_MMRS
38 bool "Generate Blackfin MMR tree"
39 select DEBUG_FS
40 help
41 Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If
42 you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the
43 /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write
44 MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug
45 feature.
46
47config DEBUG_HWERR
48 bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging"
49 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
50 help
51 When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and
52 will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes
53 at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting
54 hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming
55 from.
56
Robin Getz0c7a6b22008-10-08 16:27:12 +080057config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
58 bool "Debug Double Faults"
59 default n
60 help
61 If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception
62 handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode,
63 a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable
64 event. You have two options:
65 - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting
66 instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel
67 boot will print it out.
68 - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although
69 easier to handle. It is error prone since:
70 - The excepting instruction is not committed.
71 - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented.
72 - The generated exception is not taken.
73 - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event
74 The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the
75 unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting
76 this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and
77 hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message.
78
79 This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug
80 double faults - if unsure say "Y"
81
82choice
83 prompt "Double Fault Failure Method"
84 default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
85 depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
86
87config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
88 bool "Print"
89
90config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET
91 bool "Reset"
92
93endchoice
94
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +080095config DEBUG_ICACHE_CHECK
96 bool "Check Instruction cache coherency"
97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
98 depends on DEBUG_HWERR
99 help
100 Say Y here if you are getting weird unexplained errors. This will
101 ensure that icache is what SDRAM says it should be by doing a
102 byte wise comparison between SDRAM and instruction cache. This
103 also relocates the irq_panic() function to L1 memory, (which is
104 un-cached).
105
106config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO
107 bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes"
108 default y
109 help
110 Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range
111 from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in
112 catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences.
113
114 Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the
115 kernel will trigger a panic.
116
117 Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table.
118 Otherwise, there is no extra overhead.
119
120config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
121 bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace"
122 default y
123 help
124 All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last
125 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history
126 allows the user to recreate the program sequencers recent path. This
127 can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution
128 path of how it got to the offending instruction.
129
130 By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power.
131
132choice
133 prompt "Omit loop Tracing"
134 default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
135 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
136 help
137 The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in
138 program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last
139 two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents
140 the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do
141 while, etc) in the program.
142
143 Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer,
144 this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that
145 are nested four deep.
146
147config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
148 bool "Trace all Loops"
149 help
150 The trace buffer records all changes of flow
151
152config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
153 bool "Compress single-level loops"
154 help
155 The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace
156 is spinning on a while or do loop.
157
158config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
159 bool "Compress two-level loops"
160 help
161 The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if
162 the trace is spinning in a nested loop
163
164endchoice
165
166config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION
167 int
168 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
169 default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
170 default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
171 default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
172
173
174config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
175 bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries"
176 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
177 default n
178 help
179 By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in
180 the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them
181 into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This
182 has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of
183 flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty
184 debugging sessions
185
186config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN
187 int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)"
188 range 0 4
189 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
190 default 1
191 help
192 This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information
193 is kept in.
194 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries,
195 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries,
196 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries,
197 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries,
198 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries
199
200config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE
Mike Frysingere60cb8a2009-01-07 23:14:38 +0800201 bool "Turn off hwtrace in CPLB handlers"
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800202 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
Mike Frysingere60cb8a2009-01-07 23:14:38 +0800203 default y
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800204 help
Mike Frysingere60cb8a2009-01-07 23:14:38 +0800205 The CPLB error handler contains a lot of flow changes which can
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800206 quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes,
207 the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel
208 space when in reality an application is buggy.
209
210 Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces
211 of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back.
212
213config EARLY_PRINTK
214 bool "Early printk"
215 default n
Sonic Zhang0cfbb322008-10-09 17:39:37 +0800216 select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800217 help
218 This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
219 to print messages very early in the bootup process.
220
221 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
222 early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this
223 feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the
224 command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as
225 all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the
226 kernel boots completely.
227
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800228config CPLB_INFO
229 bool "Display the CPLB information"
230 help
Mike Frysingercf934252008-02-02 15:32:40 +0800231 Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo.
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800232
233config ACCESS_CHECK
234 bool "Check the user pointer address"
235 default y
236 help
237 Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its
238 address is in the kernel space.
239
240 Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance.
241
242endmenu