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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"
Arjan van de Venae531c22008-04-24 23:40:47 +020010 help
11 The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
12 space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
13 dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
14 option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
15 kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
16 obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
17 debugging the kernel.
18
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070019config EARLY_PRINTK
Ingo Molnar076f9772008-01-30 13:33:06 +010020 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021 default y
22 help
23 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
24 port.
25
26 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
27 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
28 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
29 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
30 unless you want to debug such a crash.
31
32config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
33 bool "Check for stack overflows"
34 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Adrian Bunkdab175f2005-07-27 11:44:23 -070035 help
36 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
37 drops below a certain limit.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
40 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
41 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
42 help
43 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
44 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
45
46 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
47
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070048config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080049 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
Thomas Gleixnerb1d95f42008-02-09 23:24:09 +010050 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070051 help
52 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
53 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
54 of memory corruptions.
55
travis@sgi.comc49a4952008-01-30 13:33:22 +010056config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
57 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
58 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
59 depends on X86_64_SMP
60 default n
61 help
62 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
63 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
64 and decreases performance.
65
66 Say N if unsure.
67
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020068config X86_PTDUMP
69 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
H. Peter Anvinfe770bf02008-04-17 17:40:45 +020070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Arjan van de Ven926e5392008-04-17 17:40:45 +020071 select DEBUG_FS
72 help
73 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
74 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
75 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
76 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
77 kernel.
78 If in doubt, say "N"
79
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080080config DEBUG_RODATA
81 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010082 default y
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080083 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
84 help
85 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
86 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
Ingo Molnar11201e62008-01-30 13:33:32 +010087 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
88 If in doubt, say "Y".
Arjan van de Ven63aaf302006-01-06 00:12:02 -080089
Ingo Molnar00d1c5e2008-04-17 17:40:45 +020090config DIRECT_GBPAGES
91 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
93 help
94 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
95 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
96 pressure.
97
98 This is experimental code.
99
100 If in doubt, say "N".
101
Ingo Molnaraba83912008-01-30 13:34:09 +0100102config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
103 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
104 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
105 help
106 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
107 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
108 If in doubt, say "N"
109
110config DEBUG_NX_TEST
111 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
113 help
114 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
115 and the software setup of this feature.
116 If in doubt, say "N"
117
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700118config 4KSTACKS
119 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700120 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121 help
122 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
123 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
124 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
125 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
126 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
127
128config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700129 def_bool y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700131 depends on X86_32
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700132
133config X86_MPPARSE
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700134 def_bool y
Sam Ravnborg6b0c3d42008-01-30 13:32:27 +0100135 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700136
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200137config DOUBLEFAULT
138 default y
139 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700140 depends on X86_32
Andi Kleen102e41f2006-04-18 12:35:22 +0200141 help
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700142 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
143 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
144 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
145 hair.
146
147config IOMMU_DEBUG
148 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
Joerg Roedel966396d2007-10-24 12:49:48 +0200149 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
Randy Dunlapd013a272007-10-24 15:50:43 -0700150 depends on X86_64
151 help
152 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
153 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
154 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
155 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
156 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
157 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
158 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
159 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
160 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
161 details.
162
163config IOMMU_LEAK
164 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
166 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
167 help
168 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
169 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
170
Pekka Paalanen86069782008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200171config PAGE_FAULT_HANDLERS
172 bool "Custom page fault handlers"
173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
174 help
175 Allow the use of custom page fault handlers. A kernel module may
176 register a function that is called on every page fault. Custom
177 handlers are used by some debugging and reverse engineering tools.
178
Pekka Paalanen8b7d89d2008-05-12 21:20:56 +0200179config MMIOTRACE
180 tristate "Memory mapped IO tracing"
181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PAGE_FAULT_HANDLERS && RELAY && DEBUG_FS
182 default n
183 help
184 This will build a kernel module called mmiotrace.
185
186 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for debugging
187 and reverse engineering. The kernel module offers wrapped
188 versions of the ioremap family of functions. The driver to be traced
189 must be modified to call these wrappers. A user space program is
190 required to collect the MMIO data.
191
192 See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace
193 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
194
195config MMIOTRACE_TEST
196 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
197 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
198 default n
199 help
200 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
201 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
202 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
203
204 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
205
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100206#
207# IO delay types:
208#
209
210config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
211 int
212 default "0"
213
214config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
215 int
216 default "1"
217
218config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
219 int
220 default "2"
221
222config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
223 int
224 default "3"
225
226choice
227 prompt "IO delay type"
Ingo Molnarfd59e9e2008-02-17 20:20:24 +0100228 default IO_DELAY_0X80
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100229
230config IO_DELAY_0X80
231 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100232 help
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100233 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
234 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
235
236config IO_DELAY_0XED
237 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
238 help
239 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
240 often used as a hardware-debug port.
241
242config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
243 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
244 help
245 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
246 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
247
248config IO_DELAY_NONE
249 bool "no port-IO delay"
250 help
251 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
252 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
253
254endchoice
255
256if IO_DELAY_0X80
257config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
258 int
259 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
260endif
261
262if IO_DELAY_0XED
263config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
264 int
265 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
266endif
267
268if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
269config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
270 int
271 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
272endif
273
274if IO_DELAY_NONE
275config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
276 int
277 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
278endif
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100279
Huang, Ying6d7d7432008-01-30 13:32:51 +0100280config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
281 bool "Debug boot parameters"
282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
283 depends on DEBUG_FS
284 help
285 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
286
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100287config CPA_DEBUG
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100288 bool "CPA self-test code"
Ingo Molnarf316fe62008-01-30 13:34:04 +0100289 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100290 help
Ingo Molnar971a52d2008-02-06 22:39:45 +0100291 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
Andi Kleen0c42f392008-01-30 13:33:42 +0100292
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100293config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
294 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
Linus Torvalds6d98ca72008-04-30 19:50:03 -0700295 depends on BROKEN
Ingo Molnar60a3cdd2008-03-03 12:38:52 +0100296 help
297 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
298 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
299 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
300 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
301 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
302 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
303 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
304 test gcc for this.
Ingo Molnarc9af1e32008-04-30 08:48:45 +0200305
306endmenu
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