3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
11 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
12 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
13 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
14 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
15 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
16 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
18 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
19 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
20 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
25 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
26 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
29 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
30 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
31 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
34 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
37 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
40 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
41 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
42 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
43 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
44 unless you want to debug such a crash.
46 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
47 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
49 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
51 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
53 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
54 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
55 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
56 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
57 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
59 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
60 bool "Check for stack overflows"
61 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
63 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
64 drops below a certain limit.
66 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
67 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
68 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
70 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
71 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
73 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
75 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
76 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
77 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
79 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
80 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
81 of memory corruptions.
83 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
84 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
85 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
89 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
90 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
91 and decreases performance.
96 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
100 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
101 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
102 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
103 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
108 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
112 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
113 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
114 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
115 If in doubt, say "Y".
117 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
118 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
119 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
121 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
122 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
126 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
127 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
129 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
130 and the software setup of this feature.
134 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
137 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
138 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
139 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
140 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
141 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
145 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
148 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
149 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
150 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
154 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
155 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
158 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
159 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
160 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
161 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
162 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
163 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
164 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
165 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
166 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
170 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
172 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
174 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
175 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
178 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
182 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
183 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
184 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
185 default and can be enabled at run-time.
187 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
188 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
190 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
191 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
192 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
194 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
195 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
196 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
198 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
204 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
208 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
212 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
216 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
221 prompt "IO delay type"
222 default IO_DELAY_0X80
225 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
227 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
228 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
231 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
233 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
234 often used as a hardware-debug port.
236 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
237 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
239 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
240 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
243 bool "no port-IO delay"
245 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
246 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
251 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
253 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
257 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
259 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
263 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
265 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
269 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
271 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
274 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
275 bool "Debug boot parameters"
276 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
279 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
282 bool "CPA self-test code"
283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
285 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
287 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
288 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
290 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
291 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
292 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
293 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
294 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
295 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
296 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
297 is there to test gcc for this.