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Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +08001menu "Kernel hacking"
2
3source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
4
5config DEBUG_MMRS
6 bool "Generate Blackfin MMR tree"
7 select DEBUG_FS
8 help
9 Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If
10 you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the
11 /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write
12 MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug
13 feature.
14
15config DEBUG_HWERR
16 bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging"
17 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
18 help
19 When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and
20 will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes
21 at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting
22 hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming
23 from.
24
Robin Getz0c7a6b22008-10-08 16:27:12 +080025config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
26 bool "Debug Double Faults"
27 default n
28 help
29 If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception
30 handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode,
31 a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable
32 event. You have two options:
33 - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting
34 instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel
35 boot will print it out.
36 - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although
37 easier to handle. It is error prone since:
38 - The excepting instruction is not committed.
39 - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented.
40 - The generated exception is not taken.
41 - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event
42 The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the
43 unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting
44 this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and
45 hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message.
46
47 This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug
48 double faults - if unsure say "Y"
49
50choice
51 prompt "Double Fault Failure Method"
52 default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
53 depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
54
55config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
56 bool "Print"
57
58config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET
59 bool "Reset"
60
61endchoice
62
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +080063config DEBUG_ICACHE_CHECK
64 bool "Check Instruction cache coherency"
65 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
66 depends on DEBUG_HWERR
67 help
68 Say Y here if you are getting weird unexplained errors. This will
69 ensure that icache is what SDRAM says it should be by doing a
70 byte wise comparison between SDRAM and instruction cache. This
71 also relocates the irq_panic() function to L1 memory, (which is
72 un-cached).
73
74config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO
75 bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes"
76 default y
77 help
78 Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range
79 from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in
80 catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences.
81
82 Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the
83 kernel will trigger a panic.
84
85 Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table.
86 Otherwise, there is no extra overhead.
87
88config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
89 bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace"
90 default y
91 help
92 All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last
93 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history
94 allows the user to recreate the program sequencers recent path. This
95 can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution
96 path of how it got to the offending instruction.
97
98 By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power.
99
100choice
101 prompt "Omit loop Tracing"
102 default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
103 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
104 help
105 The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in
106 program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last
107 two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents
108 the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do
109 while, etc) in the program.
110
111 Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer,
112 this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that
113 are nested four deep.
114
115config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
116 bool "Trace all Loops"
117 help
118 The trace buffer records all changes of flow
119
120config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
121 bool "Compress single-level loops"
122 help
123 The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace
124 is spinning on a while or do loop.
125
126config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
127 bool "Compress two-level loops"
128 help
129 The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if
130 the trace is spinning in a nested loop
131
132endchoice
133
134config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION
135 int
136 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
137 default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
138 default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
139 default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
140
141
142config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
143 bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries"
144 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
145 default n
146 help
147 By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in
148 the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them
149 into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This
150 has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of
151 flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty
152 debugging sessions
153
154config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN
155 int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)"
156 range 0 4
157 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
158 default 1
159 help
160 This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information
161 is kept in.
162 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries,
163 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries,
164 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries,
165 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries,
166 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries
167
168config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE
169 bool "Trace user apps (turn off hwtrace in kernel)"
170 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
171 default n
172 help
173 Some pieces of the kernel contain a lot of flow changes which can
174 quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes,
175 the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel
176 space when in reality an application is buggy.
177
178 Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces
179 of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back.
180
181config EARLY_PRINTK
182 bool "Early printk"
183 default n
184 help
185 This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
186 to print messages very early in the bootup process.
187
188 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
189 early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this
190 feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the
191 command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as
192 all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the
193 kernel boots completely.
194
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800195config CPLB_INFO
196 bool "Display the CPLB information"
197 help
Mike Frysingercf934252008-02-02 15:32:40 +0800198 Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo.
Mike Frysinger74ce8322007-11-21 23:50:49 +0800199
200config ACCESS_CHECK
201 bool "Check the user pointer address"
202 default y
203 help
204 Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its
205 address is in the kernel space.
206
207 Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance.
208
209endmenu