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Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +08001menu "Kernel hacking"
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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
Robin Getz9f06c382008-10-10 18:13:21 +080021config DEBUG_VERBOSE
22 bool "Verbose fault messages"
23 default y
24 select PRINTK
25 help
26 When a program crashes due to an exception, or the kernel detects
27 an internal error, the kernel can print a not so brief message
28 explaining what the problem was. This debugging information is
29 useful to developers and kernel hackers when tracking down problems,
30 but mostly meaningless to other people. This is always helpful for
31 debugging but serves no purpose on a production system.
32 Most people should say N here.
33
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +080034config DEBUG_MMRS
35 bool "Generate Blackfin MMR tree"
36 select DEBUG_FS
37 help
38 Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If
39 you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the
40 /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write
41 MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug
42 feature.
43
44config DEBUG_HWERR
45 bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging"
46 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
47 help
48 When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and
49 will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes
50 at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting
51 hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming
52 from.
53
Robin Getzb9a38992009-05-18 18:33:26 +000054config EXACT_HWERR
55 bool "Try to make Hardware errors exact"
56 depends on DEBUG_HWERR
57 help
58 By default, the Blackfin hardware errors are not exact - the error
59 be reported multiple cycles after the error happens. This delay
60 can cause the wrong application, or even the kernel to receive a
61 signal to be killed. If you are getting HW errors in your system,
62 try turning this on to ensure they are at least comming from the
63 proper thread.
64
65 On production systems, it is safe (and a small optimization) to say N.
66
Robin Getz0c7a6b22008-10-08 16:27:12 +080067config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
68 bool "Debug Double Faults"
69 default n
70 help
71 If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception
72 handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode,
73 a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable
74 event. You have two options:
75 - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting
76 instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel
77 boot will print it out.
78 - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although
79 easier to handle. It is error prone since:
80 - The excepting instruction is not committed.
81 - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented.
82 - The generated exception is not taken.
83 - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event
84 The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the
85 unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting
86 this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and
87 hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message.
88
89 This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug
90 double faults - if unsure say "Y"
91
92choice
93 prompt "Double Fault Failure Method"
94 default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
95 depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
96
97config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
98 bool "Print"
99
100config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET
101 bool "Reset"
102
103endchoice
104
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800105config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO
106 bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes"
107 default y
108 help
109 Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range
110 from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in
111 catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences.
112
113 Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the
114 kernel will trigger a panic.
115
116 Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table.
117 Otherwise, there is no extra overhead.
118
119config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
120 bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace"
121 default y
122 help
123 All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last
124 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history
125 allows the user to recreate the program sequencer’s recent path. This
126 can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution
127 path of how it got to the offending instruction.
128
129 By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power.
130
131choice
132 prompt "Omit loop Tracing"
133 default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
134 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
135 help
136 The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in
137 program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last
138 two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents
139 the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do
140 while, etc) in the program.
141
142 Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer,
143 this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that
144 are nested four deep.
145
146config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
147 bool "Trace all Loops"
148 help
149 The trace buffer records all changes of flow
150
151config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
152 bool "Compress single-level loops"
153 help
154 The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace
155 is spinning on a while or do loop.
156
157config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
158 bool "Compress two-level loops"
159 help
160 The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if
161 the trace is spinning in a nested loop
162
163endchoice
164
165config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION
166 int
167 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
168 default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
169 default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
170 default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
171
172
173config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
174 bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries"
175 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
176 default n
177 help
178 By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in
179 the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them
180 into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This
181 has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of
182 flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty
183 debugging sessions
184
185config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN
186 int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)"
187 range 0 4
188 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
189 default 1
190 help
191 This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information
192 is kept in.
193 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries,
194 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries,
195 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries,
196 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries,
197 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries
198
199config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE
Mike Frysingere60cb8a2009-01-07 23:14:38 +0800200 bool "Turn off hwtrace in CPLB handlers"
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800201 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
Mike Frysingere60cb8a2009-01-07 23:14:38 +0800202 default y
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800203 help
Mike Frysingere60cb8a2009-01-07 23:14:38 +0800204 The CPLB error handler contains a lot of flow changes which can
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800205 quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes,
206 the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel
207 space when in reality an application is buggy.
208
209 Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces
210 of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back.
211
212config EARLY_PRINTK
213 bool "Early printk"
214 default n
Sonic Zhang0cfbb322008-10-09 17:39:37 +0800215 select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800216 help
217 This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
218 to print messages very early in the bootup process.
219
220 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
221 early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this
222 feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the
223 command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as
224 all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the
225 kernel boots completely.
226
Graf Yang60ffdb32010-01-20 10:56:24 +0000227config NMI_WATCHDOG
228 bool "Enable NMI watchdog to help debugging lockup on SMP"
229 default n
Graf Yangc4298862010-03-17 09:00:32 +0000230 depends on SMP
Graf Yang60ffdb32010-01-20 10:56:24 +0000231 help
232 If any CPU in the system does not execute the period local timer
233 interrupt for more than 5 seconds, then the NMI handler dumps debug
234 information. This information can be used to debug the lockup.
235
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800236config CPLB_INFO
237 bool "Display the CPLB information"
238 help
Mike Frysingercf934252008-02-02 15:32:40 +0800239 Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo.
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800240
241config ACCESS_CHECK
242 bool "Check the user pointer address"
243 default y
244 help
245 Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its
246 address is in the kernel space.
247
248 Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance.
249
Mike Frysingerc40cdb22009-08-27 01:46:48 +0000250config BFIN_ISRAM_SELF_TEST
251 bool "isram boot self tests"
252 default n
253 help
254 Run some self tests of the isram driver code at boot.
255
Robin Getz6ce3e9c2010-03-16 14:40:17 +0000256config BFIN_PSEUDODBG_INSNS
257 bool "Support pseudo debug instructions"
258 default n
259 help
260 This option allows the kernel to emulate some pseudo instructions which
261 allow simulator test cases to be run under Linux with no changes.
262
263 Most people should say N here.
264
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800265endmenu